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Technical Writing For Dummies
By Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts
( 13 ratings )
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Whether you’re contemplating a career as a technical writer, or you just got tapped for a technical writing project, this friendly guide is your ticket to getting your tech writing skills up to snuff. It shows you step-by-step how to:
- Research and organize information for your documents
- Plan your project in a technical brief
- Fine-tune and polish your writing
- Work collaboratively with your reviewers
- Create great user manuals, awesome abstracts, and more
- Write first-rate electronic documentation
- Write computer- and Web-based training courses
Discover how to write energized technical documents that have the impact you want on your readers. Wordsmith Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts covers all the bases, including:
- All about the red-hot market for technical writing and how to get work as a technical writer
- The ABCs of creating a strong technical document, including preparing a production schedule, brainstorming, outlining, drafting, editing, rewriting, testing, presentation, and more
- Types of technical documents, including user manuals, abstracts, spec sheets, evaluation forms and questionnaires, executive summaries, and presentations
- Writing for the Internet—covers doing research online, creating multimedia documents, developing computer-based training and Web-based training, and writing online help
Combining examples, practical advice, and priceless insider tips on how to write whiz-bang technical documents, Technical Writing For Dummies is an indispensable resource for newcomers to technical writing and pros looking for new ideas to advance their careers.
Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts
SHERYL LINDSELL-ROBERTS runs business-writing and e-mail seminars throughout the country and is the author of twenty-three books, including the popular Strategic Business Letters and E-mail, Mastering Computer Typing, Revised Edition, and 135 Tips for Writing Successful Business Documents.
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Technical writing for dummies - sheryl lindsell-roberts, introduction.
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
—John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S. President
All technical people are called upon to write technical documents at some point in their careers. Therefore, your career depends on your ability to write and present your information clearly and distinctly. So this book is for you if . . .
bullet You’re an engineer, scientist, computer programmer, or information technology specialist.
bullet You’re involved in any other technical field.
bullet You’re a professional technical writer.
bullet You’re a college student who will enter a technical field.
bullet You shake and grunt like an unbalanced clothes dryer when you’re asked to write a technical document.
Not all companies enjoy the benefit of having a technical writer on staff, and technical people struggle through the rigors of writing these documents on their own. Although this book won’t reveal the formula for turning lead into gold and it won’t unlock the secret of perpetual motion, it will serve as your easy-to-understand guide through the maze of writing technical documents — paper and electronic.
This book is also for professional technical writers. Professional technical writers come from all walks of life: teachers, musicians, journalists, scientists, and more. Technical writing services are sought in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. So whether you’re a technical person who finds that technical writing is something you must do to advance your career or you’re a professional technical writer looking to fine-tune your skills, you’ll find this book to be invaluable to your professional growth and survival.
Skills, Not Frills
In Internet time, what’s cutting edge today is history tomorrow. Therefore, this book isn’t about software or applications. This book is about strategy — learning the skills you need to write energized technical documents that have the impact you want on your readers.
Even if technology didn’t change so quickly, the most sophisticated software wouldn’t generate a high-quality technical document; that’s the responsibility of the writer. For example, if legendary writers such as Shakespeare, Chaucer, Poe, Twain, or Longfellow had computers, would they have been more successful? Of course not. They were all successful because they mastered the tools of their trade. Technical Writing For Dummies will help you master the tools of your trade and develop the skills you need to excel.
Preview of Coming Attractions
In each of my For Dummies books, I use interesting opening quotes to begin the chapters. Therefore, each chapter starts with a technology quote by one of the sages through the ages. When you read them, you may shake your head, wrinkle your brow, and just wonder what they were thinking. Here’s a sneak preview of the five parts of this book:
Part I: What It Takes to Write Technical Documentation
Learn about the red-hot market of technical writing and how masterful technical writing will enhance your career — whether you’re a technical person who’s called upon to write documents or you’re a professional technical writer.
This part introduces the Technical Brief — a key element in writing dynamite technical documents. The Technical Brief gets you jump started. Just as you wouldn’t take a cross-country car trip without a map, you shouldn’t start a technical writing project without filling out a Technical Brief. Once you use it, you’ll wonder how you ever did without it. It will help you to get to know your readers (the term I use for paper documents) and users (the term I use for electronic documents), identify the key issues, and understand the executional considerations.
Part II: The Write Stuff
Most technical documents are a collaborative effort — even if it’s just two people (a technical writer and reviewer). This part walks you through the steps of preparing an ironclad production schedule, brainstorming, outlining, drafting, editing, rewriting, and testing.
Also, in order to write technical documents that are valuable to your readers, your documents must have a strong visual impact and an appropriate tone. Whether your documents are paper or electronic, visual impact is what grabs the readers’ attention, and a befitting tone gets the message across clearly. Last but not least, you want your documents to be remembered for the write reasons. Proofread! Proofread! Proofread!
Part III: Types of Technical Documents
In this part, you find tips for whiz-bang user manuals, abstracts, spec sheets, evaluation forms and questionnaires, executive summaries, and presentations that leave your audiences clamoring for more.
Part IV: Computers and More
No technical writing book would be complete without focusing on the power of the computer and the Internet. Although electronic documents follow many of the same basic guidelines as paper documents, they do have their own unique flavors. This part goes into detail about those unique flavors. It includes doing research online, creating sights and sounds, developing computer-based training (CBT) and Web-based training (WBT), and writing online help.
Part V: The Part of Tens
The Part of Tens is a For Dummies classic. Here you find a potpourri of tips and tidbits in a variety of specific areas such as publishing in a technical journal, filing a patent, and writing a grant proposal. It also highlights ten ways to make your document shout Read me.
The appendixes round out Technical Writing For Dummies with a glossary of technical terms you can bandy about at cocktail parties, punctuation and grammar guidelines so you can write to your readers in your voice, information on abbreviations, and tables of metric equivalents.
Getting the most from this book
I strongly suggest that you read Chapters 2 through 7 in sequential order because good writing is a process of getting started, creating an outline, writing the draft, designing for visual impact, honing the tone, and proofreading. When you work collaboratively, you may repeat parts of this process as needed.
The remainder of this book builds on this process for print and electronic technical documents. Feel free to jump to whatever topic interests you or applies to the writing challenges you face.
Icons, Icons Everywhere
To help you find the important stuff easily, I scatter icons throughout this book — somewhat like road signs. Each of the following icons pinpoints something vital to your technical writing existence:
The Sheryl Says icon helps you benefit from my experiences — the blissful, the painful, and everything in between.
The Tip icon gives you nifty tips to take on the road to effective technical writing. These may be time savers, frustration savers, lifesavers, or just about anything else.
The Remember icon represents little tidbits to — what else? — remember.
The Technical Brief icon reminds you to refer to the Technical Brief during different stages of your technical writing project. I detail the Technical Brief in Chapter 2 and present it on the Cheat Sheet in the front of this book so you can find it easily.
The Caution icon calls attention to a pitfall you should avoid. If you don’t heed the caution, it won’t put an end to civilization as we know it. However, forewarned is forearmed.
The Success Story icon plays off the adage Nothing succeeds like success. You may find it helpful to hear other people’s success stories.
Author’s Note about Genders
When I started writing For Dummies books, I searched for an elegant pronoun that would cover both genders. I wasn’t able to find one. Rather than get into the clumsy he/she or him/her scenario, I opted to be an equal-opportunity writer. I tossed a coin, and here’s how it landed. (If this approach offends anyone, I sincerely apologize.)
bullet The male gender appears in the even chapters.
bullet The female gender appears in the odd chapters.
Making This Book Your Personal Reference Source
Following are a few ways to personalize this book so it truly becomes your reference source:
bullet Write your own notes in the margins; there’s plenty of room.
bullet Highlight the stuff that’s meaningful to you with a colored highlight marker.
bullet Get stick-on notes and tape flags to tag the hot pages.
And don’t forget to put your name in big letters in some obvious spot. Books such as these have a tendency to find new homes.
What It Takes to Write Technical Documentation
In this part . . ..
Just as there are two sides to every story, there are two sides to every technical document — the writer’s side (you) and the reader’s side (your audience). People who write for entertainers learn the writer-audience concept early on. The entertainers who get standing ovations, rather than catcalls, are the ones with writers who take the time to get to know the audience.
This part links the people who write technical documents (and that’s just about everyone who’s in a technical field) with those who read technical documents in paper or electronic forms, or a combination of the two.
This part also features the Technical Brief, which is key to understanding your readers. The Technical Brief helps to ensure that your technical documents get standing (or sitting) O’s.
Accelerating Your Career the Write Way
In this chapter.
bullet Discovering who writes technical documents
bullet Understanding how technical documents differ from business documents
bullet Developing a strategic approach to technical writing
bullet Writing technical documents that have impact
640K [of memory] ought to be enough for anybody.
—Bill Gates, 1981
Whether you realize it or not, technical documents are part of our everyday lives — both personal and business. When you buy a new camera, it comes with instructions on everything from changing the batteries to getting rid of red eye. When you get a prescription from a pharmacy, it comes with a leaflet on how often to take the medication and what the side effects may be. When you hire an architect to design your home or office, the architect presents you with drawings of the layout. Technical documents are written for all of us, not just for computer geeks who assemble rockets or plasma generators. And it’s not just the computer geeks who write technical documents — all technical people do at some point in their careers.
Technical writing means different things to different people. It covers the fields of electronics, aircraft, computer manufacturing and software development, chemical and pharmaceuticals, technical publications, health, and much more. It spans the public and private sectors as well as academic institutions.
Technical Writers Spring from All Walks of Life
People who write technical documents come from all walks of life — and most aren’t technical writers per se. Here are some actual situations of people who were called upon to write technical documents in the course of their professions:
bullet Computer programmer: Pat graduated with a degree in computer science and was hired as a software developer for a company in the fast track. Several months later, the company felt a financial pinch and laid off the technical writers. Pat had a big deliverable due in a few months, and her supervisor told her that she had to write a user manual. Sophomore English (which Pat struggled through and loathed) didn’t prepare her for this type of assignment. After all, Shakespeare wasn’t a technical sort of guy. Poor Pat had to muddle through writing the user manual and got gray hair prematurely.
bullet Manufacturing specialist: Bill worked for a manufacturing company for many years and developed a piece of equipment that was expected to revolutionize the industry. The equipment made its debut in Germany at the industry’s largest conference. Bill’s supervisor asked him to deliver a paper (the industry term for a making technical presentation) at the conference. The audience would consist of more than 200 top industry professionals. Not only did Bill fear the podium more than the dentist’s drill, he didn’t know to prepare or deliver a technical paper — especially in a foreign country for an audience of this caliber.
bullet Mad scientist: While working at a pharmaceutical company, Nathaniel had a major breakthrough on a treatment that promised to prevent baldness. The company president asked him to write an article for a major medical journal. Although Nathaniel was flattered by the president’s request, he didn’t know the first thing about writing or submitting a technical article.
bullet Sales representative: Lynette was a sales representative for a worldwide computer distributor. She’d often be away from home for weeks at a time. After 15 years as a road warrior, Lynette suffered from burnout. (She used to leave her picture on the fireplace mantle so that her family wouldn’t forget her.) Lynette had been reading about the burgeoning field of tech writing. She called a local college, got all the literature, and decided to pursue a master’s degree in technical writing.
Although I changed the names to protect the innocent (Lynette, for example, hasn’t turned in her resignation yet), scenarios such as these are typical. Technical people who aren’t trained writers are constantly asked to write technical documents. Their education and work experience rarely prepare them for this type of challenge. Technical Writing For Dummies will!
The humble beginnings of tech writing
Technical writing as we know it today took root in World War II when the U.S. military persuaded those who served to write manuals to aid the war effort. The military needed to teach soldiers about weapons, transport vehicles, and other hardware. These technical writers had little or no training. They just sat down at their manual typewriters and banged out whatever made sense to them. I don’t know whether it made sense to the poor soldiers trying to decipher their writing. However, we did win the war.
Technical Writing Differs from Business Writing
Many people ask the difference between business writing and technical writing. The difference is analogous to apples and oranges. For example, at the very core (pardon the pun), apples and oranges are fruits. And at the very core, documents are words and graphics. Beyond the core, business and technical documents are different species.
Documents of the business kind
Letters are the crux of business documents. When you factor in e-mail messages, that accounts for as much as 90 percent of all business correspondence. Every businessperson writes business documents — letters, memos, e-mail messages, proposals, reports, and more. One major difference between business and technical documents is that business documents are generally written by one person, often for a single reader or small, select group of readers. Following are some commonly written business documents:
bullet Agendas
bullet E-mail messages
bullet Letters
bullet Meeting minutes
bullet Memos
bullet Presentations
bullet Proposals
bullet Reports
For a super book on writing business documents, check out my hot seller Business Writing for Dummies (Hungry Minds, Inc.). This book is the outgrowth of my very successful business writing seminar, Energize Your Business Writing, and it walks you through the Six Steps that are key to having the impact you want to have on your readers. It also ties those steps into all sorts of business writing, including those just mentioned. The book even includes a major part on using e-mail effectively and cutting information overload.
For expert letters, check out my other hot seller, Writing Business Letters For Dummies (Hungry Minds, Inc.). It’s chock-full of ready-to-use business letters and e-mail messages for all occasions. I just got a letter from someone who said, My version of your book has so many dog-eared pages and highlights that I can barely read it! This book is never more than two feet from my computer monitor. I have saved hundreds of hours, added to my letters more flavors than Baskin-Robbins, and learned the essentials of great letter writing. Get it NOW!
Documents of the technical kind
People in specialized fields write documents that relate to technical or complex subjects. Unlike business documents that are generally written by one person, technical documents are often a collaborative effort between a writer, subject matter expert (SME), editor, and others. (Check out Chapter 3 to learn more about writing as part of a collaborative effort.) Technical documents are generally intended for lots of readers. Following are some commonly written technical documents — paper and electronic. You find chapters about the specifics of writing each of these documents later in this book.
bullet Abstracts
bullet Articles for publication
bullet Computer-based training (CBT)
bullet Evaluation forms
bullet Executive summaries
bullet Functional and detail specifications
bullet Online help
bullet Questionnaires
bullet Training material (paper or electronic)
bullet User manuals
bullet Web-based training (WBT)
Documents such as reports, proposals, and presentations can be business or technical. On the business side, an advertising agency may prepare a colorful presentation to dazzle a client with a creative ad campaign. On the technical side, an engineer may prepare a conservative presentation to persuade management that her project needs additional funding. Check out Chapter 12 for some handy-dandy tips on preparing and delivering a dynamic technical presentation.
Print or Electronic Media — That Is the Question
Technical writing covers both print and electronic media and you must understand which (or a combination of both) is suitable for your reader. Following is a sampling of a few types of print and electronic media that fall under the broad category of technical writing:
bullet Print
• User/reference manuals for hardware or software
• Equipment specifications for people who assemble, operate, or repair machinery
• Scientific articles, reports, and white papers
• Papers to be delivered at seminars or conferences
bullet Electronic
• Web-based documents
• Computer-based documents
• Online documentation (with Help included)
In the early 1990s companies delivered print versions of user manuals, parts catalogs, specifications, and the like. Now these same documents may be delivered in print or electronic form. The key — as I stress over and over in this book — is to understand the needs and environment of your readers. For example, many environments, such as semiconductor clean rooms or electronically run manufacturing plants and stockrooms, are completely paperless. For a great book on the latest trends, check out Customer Service on the Internet, by James Sterne (Wiley Computer Publishing).
Assigning Responsibility for Technical Documents
The responsibility for writing technical documents depends on a company’s structure and resources. Following are three ways that companies typically generate technical documents:
1. Technical gurus (engineers, software developers, and others) write their own documents. Some of these people may have taken writing courses, but most have no training in writing a cohesive document. These technical writers often overlook steps to share with their readers because these steps are obvious to them. And they probably haven’t identified the needs of their readers. They write what’s important to them.
2. These same gurus may draft documents and then turn the drafts over to technical writers to edit, format, and polish. Unless the technical writer has an opportunity to learn the subject matter intimately, many of the steps that may have been overlooked by the guru aren’t identified by the writer or editor. This process does, however, produce a document that may be more pleasing to the eye — for what that’s worth.
3. A technical writer is called in from the onset of a project. The writer works with the developer who’s the subject matter expert (SME). They work as a collaborative team, each adding their expertise to the project. This approach is generally the best of all possible worlds.
Strategy, Not Software
Anyone who writes technical documents must understand how critical it is to take a strategic approach. For example, if you design a custom home, do you first call someone to wield a hammer? Of course not. A hammer is merely a tool. To design a custom home, you call an architect — a trained professional who designs layout; renders plans for the plumbing, electrical, and heating systems; and provides the structure. Then you call someone who knows hammers.
The same holds true in technical writing. Effective technical documents require an information architect — a technical writer . Whether this person is a professional technical writer or an engineer or software developer who writes technical documents, she must plan, design, and provide logical structure. Anyone can learn to use the software to create the document. Much like the hammer, software is merely a tool. The key to writing a great document is strategy, not software.
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Let's face it, a lot of technical documentation reads as if it had been translated into English from Venutian by a native speaker of gibberish. Which is annoying for you and expensive for the manufacturer who pays with alienated customers and soaring technical support costs. That's why good technical writers are in such big demand worldwide. Now, Technical Writing For Dummies arms you with the skills you need to cash in on that demand.
Whether you're contemplating a career as a technical writer, or you just got tapped for a technical writing project, this friendly guide is your ticket to getting your tech writing skills up to snuff. It shows you step-by-step how to:
- Research and organize information for your documents
- Plan your project in a technical brief
- Fine-tune and polish your writing
- Work collaboratively with your reviewers
- Create great user manuals, awesome abstracts, and more
- Write first-rate electronic documentation
- Write computer- and Web-based training courses
Discover how to write energized technical documents that have the impact you want on your readers. Wordsmith Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts covers all the bases, including:
- All about the red-hot market for technical writing and how to get work as a technical writer
- The ABCs of creating a strong technical document, including preparing a production schedule, brainstorming, outlining, drafting, editing, rewriting, testing, presentation, and more
- Types of technical documents, including user manuals, abstracts, spec sheets, evaluation forms and questionnaires, executive summaries, and presentations
- Writing for the Internet—covers doing research online, creating multimedia documents, developing computer-based training and Web-based training, and writing online help
Combining examples, practical advice, and priceless insider tips on how to write whiz-bang technical documents, Technical Writing For Dummies is an indispensable resource for newcomers to technical writing and pros looking for new ideas to advance their careers.
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- Research and organize information for your documents
- Plan your project in a technical brief
- Fine-tune and polish your writing
- Work collaboratively with your reviewers
- Create great user manuals, awesome abstracts, and more
- Write first-rate electronic documentation
- Write computer- and Web-based training courses
Discover how to write energized technical documents that have the impact you want on your readers. Wordsmith Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts covers all the bases, including:
- All about the red-hot market for technical writing and how to get work as a technical writer
- The ABCs of creating a strong technical document, including preparing a production schedule, brainstorming, outlining, drafting, editing, rewriting, testing, presentation, and more
- Types of technical documents, including user manuals, abstracts, spec sheets, evaluation forms and questionnaires, executive summaries, and presentations
- Writing for the Internet—covers doing research online, creating multimedia documents, developing computer-based training and Web-based training, and writing online help
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