TW History is FTW
It astonishes me on just how many people think that the technical writing profession was born out of the dot com boom. It’s even more astonishing to me that many writers don’t even know the history of their own profession. Also way too many technical writing or technical communications textbooks don’t even address the history [...]
Posted at 2am on 8/14/08 | no comments; | Filed Under: Rant | Tagged: Technical Writing, technical communications, technical writing history, history, textbooks | read on
Bad Docs Anyone?
Ever read a manual that looks like it was written by 5 different people? Or where the writer (or writers) obviously didn’t even bother to look up a widely used acronym (e.g., HTTP, “Hypertext Transfer Protocol”, I’ve seen this defined as “HTML Transfer Procedure” in a doc I reviewed once…yes I’m serious)? or UI screen [...]
Posted at 3am on 8/13/08 | no comments; | Filed Under: Rant | Tagged: bad documentation, Documentation problems, editing, editor, program manager, project manager, technical communication, Technical Writing | read on
