As you might have seen on The Content Wrangler recently, I wrote a response to JoAnn Hackos’ article, Is there a wiki in your future? and Scott Abel chose the title for my special contribution to his site. I think the title of this blog post – Emerging wiki use – now and future wikis […]
Levels of difficulty and stress in a technical writer job
I have been thinking lately about how to measure the level of stress and difficulty you could expect from a particular technical writing job. Would it be the type of content you write? The output requirements? The deadlines? This post is a result of some ideas my coworkers and I discussed over lunch the other […]
Simplest of style guides
Ah, simplicity. Elegant. Succinct. Basic. Good. Welcome to ASI, new writer. Here are the basics: Write well, quickly, in the active voice and the present tense. Put punctuation outside the quoted material. Maintain gender neutrality. (“He” and “she”: bad. “They”: good.) Replace semicolons with periods. Use numerals for all numbers. Make cross-references target-neutral. Insert AIT […]