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9 Essential Technical Writing Skills That Every Writer Must Possess!, How…
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How to find your voice
It should never seem like a copycat of someone else. That said, it’s only by copying skilled writers that you’ll find your own unique voice.
creative professionals go through three stages of development: imitation, mastery and, finally, innovation.
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Select one piece from each that is representative of their work, or that you enjoy reading.
Select your favorite of the five writing samples, and read it slowly, word-for-word, out loud if necessary.
Edit. Edit. Edit.
The first draft is usually a good effort at figuring out how to put your ideas into words. As a result, they’re almost always badly written. For all writers.
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don’t just settle for one round of edits. For high quality writing, you’ll need to go through several rounds of review.
User persona targeting
large-scale commercially deployed products will have many different types of users reading its technical documentation.
The target user for an installation manual is an installation engineer and the target user for a troubleshooting guide is a service technician.
They know the system from within and are concerned with technical aspects such as Operating System environments, hardware specifications, programming APIs, build tools, test automation. Especially when multiple products and platforms are deployed as part of a composite solution.
B2C users are primarily laymen who just care about using the product as a black box. So product documentation must be from that perspective.
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When you’re writing and need to find a statistic, here’s how you find it in Evernote:
When you are writing a blog post or writing a video script and you need a statistic or other fact, go to Evernote.com and log in to your account.
In the search bar at the top of the page, type in your keyword and click “Search.”
Click on any of the search results, and it will appear in the reading panel on the right.
Of the three options for saving your research, Evernote takes the most up-front time. That’s because, in order to be able to find information later, you must add tags to the pages you save.
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Research skills
Understanding how to research a topic well enough that you’re an expert on that topic is crucial to being a good writer for any type of writing. That includes technical writers.
Technical writers need to have a full understanding of their product and target audience – and that is done through proper research and audience analysis.
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Plain writing is best
Short paragraphs, short sentences, and easy words are the most readable. So don’t try to win any writing awards.
Digital content is not what you learned to write in English class.
Shorter and simpler is your mantra for better readability.
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Write a sixth article in this same style, making one small change to make it sound more like your own natural voice
Let your personality come through, your own way of talking, your individual way of seeing the world. You may keep the structure of your chosen writer. Or you may continue to use some of the writer’s style. But begin to make it your own.