You’ve been asked to give a presentation. Chances are, your response will be roughly one of the following: 1. It’s a subject you’re passionate about and you’re a confident speaker. You're pleased to have the opportunity. 2. You secretly worry that your style is flat...
Here is the gist of a conversation I had with a scientist a few years ago. I was teaching a one-day technical-writing course that she was (reluctantly) attending. ‘What do you write?’ ‘Mainly records of experiments and field trials.’ ‘And do you enjoy writing?’ ‘No, I...
Specialist knowledge often comes with its own specialist language. And within that specialist world – where experts communicate with other experts – that's a good thing. It's their common language. But sometimes a writer from that technical world must communicate...
When it comes to training, we'll go wherever the need is – whether that’s Norwich, New York or the Netherlands. But even we were surprised to get a call from a tiny Buddhist country in the Eastern Himalayas. That call was from nobody less than Chewang Rinzin, the...