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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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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