High-quality documentation is not just essential for getting products ready to market and to increase sales, but also for reducing localisation costs. Localisation, the process of adapting your content to a specific market, starts with preparing the source content...
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Accidence Happen: Review of a Non-Pedantic Guide to Language Change
Oliver Kamm’s Accidence Will Happen: The Non-Pedantic Guide to English explores language change, the ways in which language is used today, and how experts discuss conventions and usage. According to Kamm, experts can be divided into two camps: Linguists (who are...
Untap the Value of Medical Technology Documentation
Every stage of the medical technology product lifecycle demands detailed documentation. Does it have to be a headache? This post was originally published in September 2016 and updated in May 2023. Unfortunately, the very mention of the term ‘documentation’ can induce...
Hello World: Writing API Tutorials for Multiple Audiences
As technical writers, we understand where we fit in the world. No one wants to read the manual; they want to use the product. In fact, even that’s not true: often, users just want a certain result. This is especially the case with an application programming interface...
Word and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA): Worth the Effort? (Part 4)
This post is part of a series on VBA for Microsoft Word. If you haven’t read the earlier parts, you can find them here: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. In the previous posts in this series, we looked at some simple auto-formatting examples. In this final post, we...
The Internet of Things: Insights from CeBIT
One of the major events on the tech calendar is CeBIT, which takes place in Hannover, Germany annually, and brings together a wide spectrum of B2B industries. This year, the lead theme of the event, 'd!conomy: join – create – succeed', focused attention on the digital...