Long story short, I’m finishing my Bachelor’s degree a mere 32 years after my expected graduation date. (You know how it gets with deadlines…) For my senior research project, I decided to write a ...

It started, as so many great technical writing projects do, with a misunderstanding. My first day at a new job at a medical device firm, and everyone’s talking about… rowhouse requirements? No, that ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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Imagine you’re driving in your brand new Acura TL. It’s your first car, and you love how it drives. An icon appears on the dash with a bright orange exclamation point. What does this mean? You panic.

This week, Google launches the second Season of Docs (GSoD) program, where technical writers of all levels of experience team up with developers of free and open-source software (FOSS) to improve ...

One of my former students writes for a healthcare products company. Recently, his colleagues asked him to deliver a workshop for them about writing. We had a long conversation on how he prepared this ...

But what about Builtin.com? What’s that? You haven’t heard of Built In? It’s the newest online job-search engine, focused on tech jobs, so I’m not surprised you know little or nothing about it. If you ...

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