Archive for Tech Writing
When you’re interviewing for a technically oriented tech-writing job in the software industry, chances are fairly good that at some point in the process, you’ll be asked to read some code and explain what it does. So before you apply, I strongly recommend familiarizing yourself with some common simple things that a brief code sample […]
Probably the most common problem that I see in technical documentation is a failure to say upfront what the thing is that you’re documenting. I feel that in most cases, one of the first pages of the documentation set should have a sentence early on in the page that says something like “[Product name] is […]
I've seen several potentially misleading graphs in articles lately, so here's a reminder of a couple of common y-axis issues:...
For those unfamiliar with it: Markdown is “a text-to-HTML conversion tool”—or, to put it another way, a simplified way to...
Note to people applying for jobs: It's probably not a good idea to say, in your cover letter or resume,...
I've interviewed a lot of tech writer candidates in my past few jobs, and it occurs to me that it...