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27/092023

Concept, task, reference: three types of technical documentation

One of the most important aspects of technical writing is effective organization, which not only improves your content’s quality and ease of use, but makes it easier to revise and reuse. One common method for organizing content is DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture): a modular approach to creating content that emphasizes topic-based writing. In topic-based […]

23/052018

How to outsource effectively

So, you’ve decided to seek help to produce your technical documentation? Maybe even our article “Outsource or Hire? A few thoughts to help you choose” helped you decide? All you have to do now is make sure everything goes smoothly. Your documentation has to be produced as efficiently as possible and, especially, it has to […]

28/032018

What Should You Look for in a Technical Writer?

So, you’re ready? You’ve taken a hard look and admitted that your technical documentation could be, well, better? It now seems obvious that asking your tech people to write user guides really is a bad use of their skills? You’ve made a decision: You’re going to hire a professional to produce technical documentation worthy of […]

28/022018

Nobody’s reading your technical documentation? So make it better!

If you’re one to believe technical documentation goes unread, you may well end up wondering what the point of investing time and money in technical documentation is. But what if that’s actually not the right question? Technical documentation isn’t literature As Mark Baker points out in Users’ Advocate: Nobody Reads Documentation, “People read novels. They don’t […]