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Technical writing
Posted by: Jack Elliott
11 / 03 / 21
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 technical information to an outsider. The outcome can be rather like a French native explaining […]
Posted by: Stan Carey
02 / 02 / 18
Most of us are technical writers at some point or other, even if we don’t realise it. You may be quite happy with the label if you write test reports or standard operating procedures. But you can have a very different role and still sometimes need to write technical things: a design brief, an employee […]
Posted by: Jacob Funnell
23 / 06 / 15
Just because someone has been writing documents for years, that doesn’t mean they’re doing it well. I wish it were that simple. The fact is that many people succeed despite their writing, not because of it. As we said in this recent post, that’s why your standard shouldn’t only be to write like everyone else […]
Posted by: James Ball
05 / 08 / 14
Being able to write about numbers well is a core skill. But it can become needlessly fraught – mainly because those who find maths straightforward often don’t understand why it’s difficult for others to grasp. Luckily, there are three principles that can take the pain out of the process: simplify, signpost and be specific. 1. […]
Posted by: em-admin
30 / 06 / 14
Bullet points can bring clarity to an otherwise dense report, delivering quickfire information. But overuse them and you could shoot yourself in the foot – too many can make a document very hard to read. There are 20 bullet points in this article. Take each of them on board next time you draft a document […]
24 / 06 / 14
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 absolutely loathe it.’ ‘Why?’ ‘Because it’s just going to […]
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