Technical Writing Blog

Misconceptions are as annoying as hell. Especially when they are connected with something you love and do for a living. Let’s take a look at common misconceptions about techcomm and bust them! Looks Don’t Matter As much as we hope this to be true for human interaction, it is certainly not the case with user…

Most people expect technical documentation to be one hundred percent neutral. We know that technical writers should ‘terraform’ the most complicated pieces of data and turn them into structured user manuals. There’s no place for ‘I’, for bias, for being opinionated in techcomm. Or is there? In the article called ‘How to Up the Drama…

This is how technical documentation works – a technical writer gets a new task, does research and consults subject-matter experts to get max knowledge. Along the way the tech writer is drawing up a plan, a scheme to pass the knowledge to the readers. This is never as simple as retelling, it takes a lot…

Technical writers are everywhere. You might not see them, but the results of their work are omnipresent. Every piece of equipment you use, every tool is created according to technical documents written by someone. Even the jobs you take have documentation that holds their processes together. Technical writers can be found in outer space, too!…

It is exciting to see how technical writing is evolving and is being reshaped by the ever-changing world around us. Social media was set on its mission to conquer the world in the 90s. This is when internet relay chats were developed and became available to the general public. First blogs appeared in the late…

The news about fires in Australia is nothing short of devastating. This is yet another warning for us all to take environmental matters more seriously and act! The environment is so complex that it is not always a hundred percent clear what causes the change. However, through years of hard work and research scientists around…

Being a medical writer opens a lot of possibilities. This is a vast field with massive demand for technical communication. Let’s take a closer look at job opportunities of medical writing. We have already covered the basics of medical writing. So, just to quickly revisit the basics – all medical writing efforts can be divided…

Today, we will look at the most prominent trends in technical writing for 2020. The end of the year is the best time to try and understand what the future holds to be prepared to embrace the changes. More Accessible User Manuals We would like to mention this trend first as this is highly important….

In one of our recent blogs, we talked about what it means to be a medical writer and what requirements exist in this profession. Today, however, we would like to go deeper – let’s examine closely the content medical writers create. Medical Writing Types In the article called Medical Writer: Guide Into Profession we did…

We like to say on this blog that technical writers are needed in many professional areas, and it’s a hundred percent true, but if you want to hit the jackpot, you will require a certain hunch for jobs. Or, you can keep reading, and we might give you some great ideas. There are professional fields…