How To Transcribe A Rules

Posted by , March 3rd, 2010

Numberless people hallucinate of novel their own book. The lamentable fact is that payment every 500 people who miss to inscribe a rules, there superiority be alone 1 or 2 who in truth do it. Other, we get it stuck in our minds that we “can never do that” and that letter “should be formerly […]

Great Technical Writing: Tell Your Users What To Expect

Posted by admin, August 28th, 2009

OVERVIEW
In your User Documentation, you direct your Reader to perform tasks with your product. If you don’t tell your Reader what to expect when performing those tasks, you will have a baffled Reader, resulting in dissatisfaction and expensive calls to technical support.
EXAMPLE: REVERSE OSMOSIS WATER FILTER
I bought and installed a Reverse Osmosis water filter. The […]

Writing A Novel On Your Lunch Hour

Posted by admin, July 12th, 2009

Okay, so I didn’t really write a whole novel on my lunch hour. But I did develop a lot of the characters, locations and plot by taking a half-hour out of each workday to sketch some ideas. You’d be surprised with what you can get done in just thirty minutes a day.
First, a little background. […]

Great Technical Writing: The User-Product Life Cycle - A Documentation Tool

Posted by admin, June 4th, 2009

The User-Product Life Cycle (U-PLC) is a powerful tool for the User Document writer. Use the U-PLC to generate the high-level topics for your User Document.
THE USER-PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE (U-PLC)
Usually, when we think of a Product Life Cycle, we think in terms of the development and production of the Product itself. When writing User Documentation, […]