Technical Writing Blog

Eventually, most businesses realize they need to organize training for employees or product users. Without it, product users may waste too much time trying to find information or figure out processes on their own. Employees may struggle with receiving incorrect information from colleagues. Organized training optimizes time expenditures by providing structured processes for everyone to…

Maybe you don’t know it, but you must have already come across microlearning many times. You may have just subscribed to a social net channel devoted to learning Spanish or some other language. The information you get in the form of short messages (just two or three per day) is, in fact, microlearning. The thing…

Whether you’re a seasoned technical writer or just starting out as a technical communicator, staying up-to-date on the latest trends and best practices in your field is essential. One of the best ways to do so is to attend conferences. In the remainder of 2023, a number of great TechComm conferences are taking place around…

The year 2020 has turned the conferencing upside down, and events in 2021 have primarily been online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As we approach 2022, many events that were canceled or held online-only are planning a big off-line comeback. So if you didn’t get the chance to visit in-person tech events in 2020 and…

Do you enjoy reading as much as I do? The best part about books is that you can find one for any cause. Our today’s cause is technical writing. And, there are a lot of great books directly about tech writing, or there are the ones that can provide you with knowledge in other spheres…

Adverbs are evil. You’ll see this repeated over and over in numerous articles that promise to teach you the fine art of writing. Technical writers create a lot of text, some of it is less generic than other and this ‘less generic text’ brings them closer to novelists, bloggers journalists, as they start wondering whether…

Let’s talk about verbs in technical writing. We are using them basically in every sentence, so it makes sense to look closer at this notion. As we all know, technical documentation is meant to be as precise and clear as possible and this can be achieved through the correct usage of verbs, as well. We…

Single sign-on is a buzzword, and it has been in the computer-based industries for a while now. But, what is the exact mechanism behind single sign-on? Why do we trust it so much? There are a lot of questions around this topic, and this is completely understandable – anyone would have questions when their sensitive…

Take a look at your workspace. What are your thoughts? Do you feel encouraged and full of productive energy to create superb technical documentation when you are looking at it? If the answer is ‘yes’, then this article is probably not for you; but you could still give it a read, because the right answer…

We all can agree that content should be the primary focus of a technical writer. But, we also can’t just leave out other aspects of creating technical documentation. This is why we would like to focus on styling and formatting of your users docs in our article. Color Scheme While printed technical docs tend to…