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Written by Oonagh Montague, Senior Training Manager. Ten years ago, if I thought about the term ‘Technical Writer’, I thought nerd. I thought nerd with specs and a pocket protector nerding out at their laptop, disappearing down rabbit holes of data and content and...
Writing user manuals is a common requirement of the technical writer's role across many different industries. It's also not uncommon for this task to fall to someone who is not a technical writer by trade — and in this case, writing user manuals can seem like a...
Structured content is an important tool for formatting and managing content used across many industries. Companies in the life sciences are beginning to implement structured content authoring to shorten the time it takes to get a product to a patient, improve quality,...
In recent years, FAQs have become a controversial issue in the web design and technical writing world. FAQs originated in the 1980s on discussion boards where regular contributors compiled lists of FAQs so that they wouldn’t have to repeat information for newcomers....
Perhaps your organisation wants to automate a process, improve efficiency, or move from one infrastructure provider to another. Whatever the motivation, business process mapping is often the first step in transforming business processes within an organisation....
It’s a feeling we’re all too familiar with. By the time the presenter flicks to the second slide in the deck, we realise: we’re trapped. We're going to have to sit here while someone reads a deck of slides to us. In the time it takes the presenter to finish reading...
