I don’t know how many of you like to blog about science, but here are some tips. Writing a blog post on a scientific subject is a little different than most other types of posts. You do have to state true facts, but yet you don’t want your post to sound like a formal journal [...]
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Tagged: primary literature, science blogging
As a Technical Writer, I often wondered about getting “writer’s block.” I mean, it’s not as if you have the choice to have it or not when you are at work. If the deadline is there, or you are working by the hour, you’ve just got to be productive and write.
I’ve seen the [...]
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Tagged: writer's block
With the vast amount of information now available on the world wide web, it’s no wonder that people are feeling overwhelmed and bombarded with information. How can a person possibly go about sorting it all out? One possible solution is to use good Google search terms, and narrow your searches so that only [...]
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Tagged: aggregator, Alltop, Cooliris, Google trends, movie reviews, news, popurls, quality content, RSS, search, technorati, Twitter, wowjobs
I thought it would be helpful to write about the different document types I have encountered while working as a technical writer in various industries (environmental, telecommunications, medical software, medical communications, etc.).
I have made an attempt to define the documents based on my own ideas about them. The text in red was added in [...]
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