Posts Tagged ‘Technical Writing’
How to Draw with Illustrator: GUIDES
© Ugur Akinci TOOL 2: Guides You need to use guides to position objects correctly relative to one another and precisely on an Illustrator grid. SNAP ON guides are a delight to use since objects snap to them like iron fillings snap to a magnet. CREATE the Guides by first turning on your RULERS. Click…
Read MoreTechnical Writing – 7 Time-Tested Principles to Design a Cover For a Technical Document
© Ugur Akinci If you are a technical writer working for a company as a payroll employee, you might be working with corporate design guidelines that define what you can and cannot do to design the cover of your technical document. But what if you are a “lone writer,” an independent contractor working out of…
Read MoreHow to Draw with Illustrator: LAYERS
© Ugur Akinci Add the title “Technical Illustrator” to your job title in a hurry and earn more! Adobe Illustrator is a bottomless well in terms of its capabilities. But you can’t postpone drawing forever until you learn “everything” that Adobe Illustrator can do. You can take so many classes and read so many books.…
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How to Create a New Paragraph Style in a FrameMaker Document
Introduction FrameMaker Paragraph style is a paragraph formatting style that you can apply to text in FrameMaker. There are four basic paragraph styles: Heading, Body, Footnote, and Header. The purpose of paragraph styles is to make it easier for you to format your text consistently by assigning a specific style to each type of text.…
Read MoreTechnical Writing – Advantages of Using Microsoft SourceSafe While Writing Your Technical Documents
© Ugur Akinci Just like with most things in life, control is an important aspect of technical documentation. Control is even more important if you are working in an office as a part of a writing team. First, you need to make sure that your files are not lost. That’s basic. And then you need…
Read MoreTechnical Writer Salaries in UNITED STATES
An interesting compilation of Technical Writer Salaries in UNITED STATES, with a graph Medical Writer Salaries in UNITED STATES Copy Writer Salaries in UNITED STATES
Read MoreTechnical Writing – 7 Top Web Writing Principles For Technical Writers
© Ugur Akinci Web writing is one of those assignments that technical writers do well due to their organized approach to technical information. But web writing differs from regular user guide and procedural writing in some important respects. Web is a fast place. People usually don’t have the time to go through long essays. Here…
Read MoreIs Technical Writing For You?
Introduction Is technical writing the right job for you? You might perhaps be considering whether to become a technical writer or not. You might be wondering: “What kind of a job technical writing is exactly and what does the future hold?” Safe and Comfortable I can tell you right away that, at its most fundamental…
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The Future of Documentation Belongs to XML, Extended Markup Language
Introduction XML, that is, Extended Markup Language, is the future of technical writing. Two Reasons There are TWO important reasons why that is so. REASON 1: XML is at the heart of “single sourcing” movement. The whole idea is to write something once and then “tag” it in such a way that it would be…
Read MoreA Top Copywriter on the Importance of Loving What You Do
by Bob Bly www.themillionairewriter.com In his book “Confessions of an Advertising Man,” David Ogilvy quotes an old Scottish proverb about happiness: “Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead.” The idea is that you should do everything in your power to be happy now, because tomorrow you might not be here. Given…
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