Archive for the ‘Technical Writing’ Category

12 reasons why copywriting is harder than technical writing

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Before I started Divine Write, I was a technical writer in the software industry. I wrote online help and user guides for 9 years. I wrote about highly technical stuff, like SCADA systems, accounting software and access control systems. I worked closely with wildly intelligent coders and engineers. I handled all the localization of the [...]

MC Hammer from a tech-writer’s perspective…

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

We’re enjoying some much-needed rain in Sydney today, so I thought I’d celebrate with a more light-hearted post.
A couple of years back, someone sent me this gem, previously published in an issue of Vertigo, the much-loved student magazine of the University of Technology, Sydney. Penned by editor, Pat Armstrong, this very funny piece deconstructs MC [...]

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