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David Farbey is a freelance technical communications and information design professional and has been active in this field since 1994. He is a member of the Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators, a member of the British Computer Society, and a Senior Member of the Society for Technical Communication (President, STC UK Chapter, 2005 -2006, and Co-Manager of the STC Europe SIG). He has presented at professional technical communications conferences in the UK and the USA.
David's typical clients are small to medium size enterprises in high-tech industries. He has written user guides, self-study tutorials, online help systems, reference manuals, policy and procedure guides, and many other types of business documents. His work covers a wide range of business activities including infrastructure projects, e-learning systems, financial applications, image recognition and processing, enterprise resource planning, and business processes and procedures, as well as copywriting and marketing writing projects. He has worked in a variety of software development environments, and has designed and managed research projects in both the academic and the public sector fields.
David joined the teaching team of the distance-learning MA Professional Communicationprogramme at Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) in 2005 after completing his MA in Technical Communication in 2004. In addition to his part-time work for SHU, David has taught courses on professional writing at Coventry University, and is also a tutor for the ISTC's Open Learning course in technical communication.
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Member of the Chelverton House Ltd. 
group of independent consultants
from "Politics and the English Language" [1946]
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are
used to seeing in print.
Never use a long word where a short one will do.
If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
Never use the passive where you can use the active.
Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can
think of an everyday English equivalent.
Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
Please contact me to discuss how professional technical writing services
can help you and your business
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