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1 Jan 2000
Hyphenated English Spoken Here
technical-writing documentation user-guides ux-writing clarity product-writing
Have you ever had the following experience? You buy some new gadget – a TV set, a blender, a microwave oven – and you open up the box, fish around for the documentation, pull it…
1 Jan 2000
No Hablo Jargon
plain-language business-writing jargon clarity technical-writing communication
I’m not one for emotional outbursts – just ask anyone I know – but if I ever see the words ‘presentment’ and ‘enablement’ in print again, I may scream. I know, I know, they’re j…
1 Jan 2000
What is Technical Writing
technical-writing documentation user-guides writing-process business-writing best-practices
It seems obvious, right? Technical writing is that magic art form that results in befuddling manuals that confuse when they should clarify, frustrate when they should delight, a…
1 Jan 2000
The Indie Life for Me
self-publishing indie-author memoir publishing writing-life author-journey
There are indie musicians, indie bands, indie films, indie artists of various stripes and backgrounds, but until recent years, being an indie\xa0*author*\xa0carried a stigma that none…
1 Jan 2000
Very, Really, and Absolutely
editing writing-style copyediting clarity word-choice writing-process
What is editing? It’s a cryptic question in some ways. It’s an abstract concept that can mean many things in different contexts. Often, it’s a term that’s qualified by using oth…