Technical Writing Blog

Halloween is finally here. What do we love about this holiday? The smell of fallen leaves, pumpkin lattes, spooky decorations, and scary stories, of course. For all the years technical writing has been around, it has accumulated a lot of stories that are worth mentioning on Halloween. The things that scare the HATs out of…

Nowadays, technical writing is a marketing tool. Online documentation contains keywords, it can be cross-linked with a corporate website, it gets branded. Your online documentation portal is indexed by all major search engines, and it shows up in search results for your clients. And, so, the term ‘target audience’ is quite common in technical writing,…

Metrics are the easiest way for managers to analyze work processes, make conclusions and see whether everything is going according to plan. If it is not, some changes need to take place. Metrics also help controlling employee performance and efficiency of the current processes. Technical writing requires metrics just like any part of product development….

Technical writing is a global notion. Technical documentation is written or localized all over the world in so many different spheres. Just imagine how many technical terms there are. Even if you have been a technical writer for a long time, working in one industry, it doesn’t mean that you know all the terminology of…

Where do technical writers stand in terms of product adoption? Do they influence the end product in any way, or is describing product functionality their only task? To answer this quickly – documentation teams are equally important for product adoption and development as other teams. If contribution of technical writers is barely noticeable aside from…

What are neologisms, how to use them in technical writing, and why do they make some people angry? These are the questions we are going to answer in this blog post. What are Neologisms If we look through the corresponding Wikipedia article, we can find out that neologisms are, basically, words that have recently appeared…

Our entire blog is dedicated to technical communication and everything around it. Technical communication is a broader term, and it includes technical writing. For most people, technical writing is something a documentation team does, whatever this is. Let’s try to clarify this term a little. So, next time you need to explain to someone what…

What is a readability score? It is a score you get based on a set of algorithms used to figure out how readable a text is. Of course, everyone who creates content wants it to be easy to read. This is especially true for technical writers, their job is to create solid comprehensive content. Although…

In this blog, we’ve mentioned a couple of times that a lot of people out there don’t have any idea of what technical writers do. Let’s be honest, documentation teams can be underappreciated and even underpaid. Of course, the whole community of technical communicators is doing its best to let the world know about their…

Technical writing became global a while ago. Tech writers set up events and conferences, network and share ideas. It is a huge community now with its own trends and difficulties. Humanity strives for improvement, and documentation authoring is not an exception, of course. In this article, we are going to discuss major trends in this…