Written by Oonagh Montague, Training Manager at Technically Write IT As a business owner or an employee, you may have heard the term "technical writing skills" and wondered what it means. Is it important for my business? The answer is yes, it really is. Poor...
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Who Needs to Write Good? Or What is Technical Writing?
Written by Oonagh Montague, Senior Training Manager. Ten years ago, if I thought about the term ‘Technical Writer’, I thought nerd. I thought nerd with specs and a pocket protector nerding out at their laptop, disappearing down rabbit holes of data and content and...
Leveraging the Benefits of Structured Content for the Life Science Industry
Structured content is an important tool for formatting and managing content used across many industries. Companies in the life sciences are beginning to implement structured content authoring to shorten the time it takes to get a product to a patient, improve quality,...
TWi Welcomes Toni Ressaire
TWi is delighted to announce that Toni Ressaire has joined our leadership team. Toni brings a wealth of experience to the role of Project Director. TWi has grown over the past few years and is now working with some of the world’s leading software and life sciences...
Using DITA Creatively to Develop Training Material
When we developed our Technical Writing Skills training course, we created the course materials using the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA), to test its usefulness for small content production projects. DITA is an open XML standard for creating,...
Punctuation for Professionals: Delivering Technical Writing Training
How do you teach grammar and punctuation to experienced technical professionals without seeming patronising? To follow that: how do you condense the skills and knowledge needed for technical communication into a single day of training? A version of this post was...