Reviewed by RAHEL ANNE BAILIE Originally Published in: IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication. A Publication of the IEEE Professional Communication Society. (March 2024, Volume 67) The book’s title, Engineering Words, is an apt triple play on words. It is...
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Approaching the Content Review Process
The start of a technical writing project may seem quite daunting. The decision of where and how to begin generally presents a challenge, as projects differ greatly in terms of content and duration. However, you can incorporate these basic steps of content review in...
Heir or Imitator? Review of Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris
Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen explores the ways in which grammar, punctuation, and language itself are evolving because of changes in publishing practices and standards, and our use of communication technologies and new media. Opening the book, I...
Top 10 Writing Tips as Voted by TWi
In our last post, we rounded up the top 10 writing mistakes that annoy us the most at TWi, with overly-complex writing coming in at Number 1. We’re now sharing our top writing tips, as voted by 44 writers in a company-wide survey. Top Writing Tips Here is the full Top...
Top 10 Writing Mistakes as Voted by TWi
Do you twitch when you see a tweet with a typo? Do you get a headache when a headline has a redundancy? What about the grocer’s apostrophe? Is it a familiar pain like a relative on Facebook you can't unfriend? We all make writing mistakes. At the same time, we all...
‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
For all technical writers and editors, we hope you enjoy our version of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. Wishing you all a very festive season! 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a laptop was stirring, not even a mouse. Our headphones...