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The Not-Boring Tech Writer

Giving tech writers the skills to have not-boring careers.

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Skill #13: Getting Your First Job in Technical Communication

Skill #13: Getting Your First Job in Technical Communication

Thaddeus Dieken – Technical Writer at Accuray – shares how you can get your first job in technical communication, includ... Read more

12 Dec 2018

29mins

Ranked #2

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Skill #30: Landing a Tech Writing Internship

Skill #30: Landing a Tech Writing Internship

German tech writer Joachim reflects on his past six weeks in his tech writing internship to share skills and lessons lea... Read more

30 Nov 2019

34mins

Ranked #3

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Skill #29: Understanding Your Reader (as a Whole)

Skill #29: Understanding Your Reader (as a Whole)

Alexander Yant shares how you can understand your readers as a whole, including why empathy is one of the most important... Read more

18 Nov 2019

35mins

Ranked #4

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Skill #28: Researching as a Tech Writer

Skill #28: Researching as a Tech Writer

Margaret Eker—technical writer at Magento, an Adobe company—shares how you can boost your researching skills as a tech w... Read more

31 Oct 2019

27mins

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Skill #8: Acquiring the Three Types of Knowledge Tech Writers Need to Succeed

Skill #8: Acquiring the Three Types of Knowledge Tech Writers Need to Succeed

Knowledge as technical writers, it’s one of our greatest assets. However, amid the information overload technical writ... Read more

2 Aug 2016

38mins

Ranked #6

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Skill #3: Creating Just-in-Time Documentation

Skill #3: Creating Just-in-Time Documentation

Face it: sometimes, documenting software can be tricky. Not because we don’t understand the software we get that. Nor ... Read more

9 May 2016

30mins

Ranked #7

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Skill #4: Understanding UX Design

Skill #4: Understanding UX Design

Where should user experience (UX) design fit in the technical writer’s toolbox? Well, think about how your users experie... Read more

16 May 2016

25mins

Ranked #8

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Skill #22: Using Your Detective Skills as a Technical Writer

Skill #22: Using Your Detective Skills as a Technical Writer

Jamie Roddy—Manager of Technical Communicators who leads a team of global technical communicators—shares how you can use... Read more

26 Aug 2019

35mins

Ranked #9

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Skill #10: Implementing Single-Source Authoring

Skill #10: Implementing Single-Source Authoring

Paul Stoecklein knows documentation: As Documentation Manager at MadCap the industry leader in documentation software ... Read more

12 Dec 2016

28mins

Ranked #10

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Skill #23: Transitioning into Tech Writing from Very-Much-Not Tech Writing

Skill #23: Transitioning into Tech Writing from Very-Much-Not Tech Writing

Chad Sterling—Product Technical Communications Specialist at KUKA—shares how you can transition into technical writing, ... Read more

30 Aug 2019

30mins

Ranked #11

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Skilll #31: Choosing the Right Knowledge Base Software for Your Organization

Skilll #31: Choosing the Right Knowledge Base Software for Your Organization

Kate Mueller—Support Sorceress and Cheese Monger at KnowledgeOwl reflects on her career to share the criterion you shoul... Read more

20 Jan 2020

50mins

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Skill #11: Surviving in the Dev World

Skill #11: Surviving in the Dev World

Michal Skowron and Pawel Kowaluk – technical writers at Guidewire Software in Kraków, Poland – about how you can survive... Read more

1 Oct 2018

36mins

Ranked #13

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Skill #18: Embracing the Long Game of Technical Writing

Skill #18: Embracing the Long Game of Technical Writing

Jody Winter—Auckland-based technical writer of 15 years—shares how you can embrace the long game of technical writing, i... Read more

22 Jul 2019

29mins

Ranked #14

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Skill #16: Using Cognitive Science to Make Your Technical Writing More Interesting

Skill #16: Using Cognitive Science to Make Your Technical Writing More Interesting

Anne Janzer—author of Writing to Be Understood—shares how technical writers can make their technical writing more intere... Read more

30 Mar 2019

31mins

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Skill #15: Transitioning into Instructional Design

Skill #15: Transitioning into Instructional Design

Katie Price, instructional designer at Azusa university, shares how technical writers can transition into instructional ... Read more

24 Mar 2019

21mins

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