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Guest post: Why are technical writers often treated as such an unimportant part of a company?

A reader whose company recently laid off two-thirds of their tech pubs staff asked why technical writers are often seen as unimportant in a company. I asked Jeremy Rosselot-Merritt, an academic at the University of Minnesota who has been doing… Continue Reading →

Upcoming WTD Australia event: Remote discussion: Techcomm in the times of pandemic

I’m participating in a remote discussion with WTD Australia this Thursday, May 28, 2020, at 7pm PST (or May 29 in GMT+10/Brisbane) in an event called Techcomm in the times of pandemic. Other participants include Kirk St. Amant, Swapnil Ogale,… Continue Reading →

Are technical writers increasingly playing non-technical roles? Some thoughts on the evolution of technical writing roles

How is the role of the technical writer evolving? It seems we’re moving away from writing and more towards other roles, such as reviewer/convener, user champion, editor, publisher, and promoter. However, it’s difficult to gauge change, especially across different job… Continue Reading →

Podcast: Users as producers of knowledge — conversation with Nupoor Ranade about how tech writer roles are changing

How can users shape and influence the documentation you’re producing? In this podcast, I chat with Nupoor Ranade, PhD candidate at North Carolina State University, about how the roles of technical writers are changing. Instead of writers authoring content for… Continue Reading →

New topic in API course: Five strategies for documenting code

Previous articles I’ve shared on documenting code introduced the complexity of the challenge. In this article, I expand on five different techniques writers take in documenting their code, including the Lego approach, the Nautilus approach, juxtaposed columns, and more. In… Continue Reading →

New topic in API course: Research on documenting code

I added another topic to the Documenting Code section in my API documentation course. This new topic is called Research on documenting code and summarizes/discusses two academic articles on documenting code. Source: I’d Rather Be Writing Feed

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