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Tag Archives: writing
Please don’t read this book
I enjoy attending conferences, whether I am making a presentation or not. You get to meet interesting people, hear interesting talks, and see how other people give their presentations. From the point of view of watching and learning from other … Continue reading
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Tagged audience, design, e-Learning, PowerPoint, presentations, teaching, writing
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User Documentation Survey 2009
I’ve just launched my latest user documentation survey – click here to take part. Please do take part (it will only take you five minutes), and please pass this invitation on to anyone who might be interested. I’d like to … Continue reading
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Tagged tech writing, technical writing, user manuals, users, writing
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How to devalue writers
I’ve commented before on how the unbridled passion for SEO has created a subculture of commoditised writing, where brokers are offering ridiculously low prices for “articles” sometimes paying as little as $1 for 200 words. No-one who lives in a … Continue reading
Instruction manuals on BBC radio
BBC Radio 4 is presenting a half-hour documentary on instruction manuals this Friday 21st August at 11:00am. One of the interviewees is Simon Butler, President of the ISTC. A few weeks ago, the researcher working on this programme posted a … Continue reading
Everybody needs an editor
I know I am a little late in reacting to this – my excuse is that I’ve been on holiday – but I did like the way that Vanity Fair magazine got its editors to review and mark-up Sarah Palin’s … Continue reading
Space Wars
There is a danger that the space wars may erupt all over again. Not a war in space, thank goodness but a war about the number of spaces to put after a full stop (or if you are from the … Continue reading
The Lure of Modular Writing
Since I started being more involved with a specific DITA product, I am seeing opportunities for modular writing everywhere. This may be a case of “when the only tool you have is a hammer, then every problem looks like a … Continue reading
Tagged DITA, modular writing, technical writing, writing
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Declining writing standards?
Someone on LinkedIn Answers asked the question “Has writing gone the way of the Dodo?” and wrote that he didn’t mean that writing was extinct, just that standards of business writing appear to have declined. He provoked a lot of … Continue reading
Tagged English, standards, tech writing, writing
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