Technical Writing Blog

Where do technical writers stand in terms of product adoption? Do they influence the end product in any way, or is describing product functionality their only task? To answer this quickly – documentation teams are equally important for product adoption and development as other teams. If contribution of technical writers is barely noticeable aside from…

What are neologisms, how to use them in technical writing, and why do they make some people angry? These are the questions we are going to answer in this blog post. What are Neologisms If we look through the corresponding Wikipedia article, we can find out that neologisms are, basically, words that have recently appeared…

Our entire blog is dedicated to technical communication and everything around it. Technical communication is a broader term, and it includes technical writing. For most people, technical writing is something a documentation team does, whatever this is. Let’s try to clarify this term a little. So, next time you need to explain to someone what…

What is a readability score? It is a score you get based on a set of algorithms used to figure out how readable a text is. Of course, everyone who creates content wants it to be easy to read. This is especially true for technical writers, their job is to create solid comprehensive content. Although…

In this blog, we’ve mentioned a couple of times that a lot of people out there don’t have any idea of what technical writers do. Let’s be honest, documentation teams can be underappreciated and even underpaid. Of course, the whole community of technical communicators is doing its best to let the world know about their…

Technical writing became global a while ago. Tech writers set up events and conferences, network and share ideas. It is a huge community now with its own trends and difficulties. Humanity strives for improvement, and documentation authoring is not an exception, of course. In this article, we are going to discuss major trends in this…

According to AdWords, people google “What is technical writing” up to 10.000 times per month! It means that a great many people either have no clue or feel unsure about what it really is. When human brain fails to interpret some situation or phenomenon, it tends to fill in the gaps in knowledge with any…

Technical communication is the means to convey information that helps people interact with technology and solve complex problems. Any communication is mostly associated with texts, but tables, charts, drawings, photographs and other graphics are as important as written text. It means that technical communication is provided in the form of technical writing and technical illustration….

Each of us makes many decisions that depend on technical information. Whether it’s about a new device, a software or some other piece of tech, or maybe a medical treatment – all these things are always accompanied by some sort of instruction. These instructions provide the end-users help on how to perform a particular task,…

Technical writing has been around for a few centuries. It is a field that demands a specific set of skills for technical communicators to have. Throughout the centuries, technical writers served as mediators between people, who created technology and people who used technology. But where does technical writing come from? How old is it? Antiquity…