Category Archives: Technical Writing
Temple students lead county schools in writing test improvement
High school students in Carroll County Schools improved their scores overall on the Georgia High School Writing Test this year, with the percentage of students meeting the test’s standard increasing by 3 percentage points. The improvement raised the system’s passing percentage up to 94.7 percent, up from 91.5 percent in 2011, with 867 county students [...]
On the Job with Kristi Arntzen
Kristi Arntzen gets paid to watch football and baseball games. Actually, as a Communication Access Realtime Transcriber (CART), she gets paid to listen to the games and create the closed-captioning that enables hearing-challenged viewers to follow the action on TV. After graduating with an English major in 1999, Arntzen decided that she didn’t want to [...]
Ten Questions for Stafford Technical Center’s Lyle Jepson
Lyle Jepson is the director of Stafford Technical Center. We asked him 10 questions about his job. What attracted you to the job at the Stafford Technical Center from your career in more traditional education? What makes technical education so exciting is that it provides practical application of abstract academic concepts. Learning becomes immediate and [...]
How to Publish Your Book: Guy Kawasaki’s Blueprint
After reading APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur-How to Publish a Book by Guy Kawasaki and Shawn Welch, my first reaction was, “Dammit, Guy, I finally get my own book published via the old-fashioned publisher route and barely 12 months later you show everyone how simple it can be to publish your own book!” My second [...]
Technical Editor
Bachelor’s in English, journalism, technical communications, or related field Minimum of one year of technical editing or technical writing experience Excellent grasp of spelling, grammar, and punctuation rules and style conventions for published materials Strong verbal and written communication skills Ability to work collaboratively on team projects and establish positive working relationships Ability to work [...]
Technical Writing for Non-Native English Speakers – iOS Reference eBook
eBook that provides a framework for ESL authors to write professional documentation. An authoritative guide, its goal is to help authors to write consistent documentation, so that both technical experts and end users can benefit from common structures and conventions in written manuals and documents. The 203-page book includes 12 Chapters, 7 Appendices, and a [...]
Technical Writer – $65000 to $70000
- CBD location – $65,000 to $70,000 salary – IT focused technical writing role – Client facing, commercial focus This opportunity will see you working as part of a team of Technical Writers in a client facing role supporting an enterprise sized environment. This position could see you heavily involved in documenting user guides, proposal [...]
Using the APA Format Tool
Technical writing is something that is pervasive in our society as students and professionals alike create paper upon paper expressing their views and/or research findings. When writing a paper, we all need to consult previous works by various individuals and groups to develop our own ideas and find others who can support them. And by [...]
5 Top Attributes of a Successful Technical Writer
Over the years, I have come to believe the following about being a successful technical writer: 1) The ability to disconnect oneself from the document at the time of review. This is no easy task, as many of us have been accustomed to cringe and become defensive when we see red ink marking up “our” [...]
Technical Manuals – What They Are and How to Write Them
The need for technical manuals has been increased by the explosion in technology. The problem is that most technical manuals are either too boring or too difficult to read, that users don’t find them useful. There is a few which lack the basics and even end up being poor in grammar or sentence structure. A [...]