Technical Communication and Marketing Communication professionals often seem to be at odds with each other in providing content about the products and services offered by organizations. At TechWhirl ...

But. However. Although. Do you ever use these words without contradicting anything? Sometimes I do, but I’ve come to see those instances as false buts. Let me try that again. “But. However. Although.

I attended the STC’s Virtual Conference: Technical Communication Content Strategy in the Mobile Device Age, Dec 4-7, 2012. I appreciated that so many important speakers organized themselves into a ...

Here’s the scenario: You’re finishing up your latest HTML Help project…no more late nights or weekends…back to a “normal” 50-hour work week. That’s when the development team lead strolls into your ...

Editor’s Note: The following piece, by Jean Hollis Weber, is part of our collection of “classics”–articles that stand the test of time no matter how many technologies come and go. Don’t forget to ...

I was browsing through a long list of contract opportunities for technical writers on the Internet, when I spotted one from a manufacturing company looking for a documentation specialist. It stated ...

I once received a long writing sample from a technical communication applicant who had written about a complex medical device. The sample demonstrated all the marks of quality: clean and consistent ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) manages Tennessee’s Grey Cliffs lake and wilderness to control flooding and generate hydro power. For generations, it’s also been a beloved recreation area. At ...

My recent book, Implementing Onscreen Editing (Hart 2019), recounts my personal experience with two onscreen editing implementations (Hart 2011, 2012), and summarizes two important papers that ...

Editor’s Note: Mark Baker begins his ongoing series on Structured Writing by framing a working definition. Look for future articles on the key concepts of structured writing and their practical ...

View our most recent TechWhirl Fast 5, featuring Dr.Erika Konrad from Northern Arizona University, and students Chris Farmer and Jessica Lewis, where we discuss their perspectives on creativity and ...

As a technical writer, you likely work with a myriad of different files for each project you work on; a single document or document set can often be derived from dozens if not hundreds of source files ...