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As 2016 comes to a close, STC would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of TechComm Today a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Wednesday, Jan. 11.
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Forbes
From Oct. 6: #4 Technical Writers. Even though technology has changed much of how companies get their services in front of customers, one critical component remains constant: the need to communicate clearly and effectively. This is where writing skills come in. Some even go so far as to say that a company is only as good as its writing. Since 2012, technical writers have grown by 11 percent, adding over 5,000 new jobs. There are now 55,000 technical writers working in every industry from software to retail to engineering to health care.
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Food Processing
From June 1: Why do organizations struggle when it comes to documenting their procedures? How can we make the process of documentation more manageable? Written procedures document the common tasks any organization relies upon day to day. These tasks make it possible to deliver products that consistently meet customers' expectations. The benefits of written procedures are many: They provide a reproducible method against which efficiency can be measured. They can be used to engineer safety, quality, and cost savings directly into a task.
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Bustle
From Jan. 28: Fortunately, the Internet is chock full of tips to make your writing better. Unfortunately, those tips aren't always helpful, largely because creativity is such a personal process. Although the "cloister yourself in a dark room until you finish writing or die" method may work wonders for some, others may find it a little confining, especially if you forget to pack a lunch. Nobody likes working on an empty stomach. Finding writing tips that are scientifically-backed is even harder; in addition to being incredibly personal, creativity is notoriously difficult to quantify.
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Poynter
From Nov. 30: Everybody needs an editor, but there are times when you are the only set of eyes to read what you've written. Whether you're writing a tweet, a breaking news story, an email or a book, here are some ways to read your work with fresh eyes, and find and fix mistakes before you hit send.
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Business 2 Community
From Aug. 10: Getting readers to pay attention to your content is difficult at the best of times, thanks to the deluge of businesses out there vying for the same audience. How do you make your brand stand out from the rest? One simple thing that you may not have thought of is using proofreading and editing tools to polish your posts into high-quality pieces of writing. Here are six tools that will up your writing game and your conversion rate.
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opensource.com
From Feb. 10: At the 2016 Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE 14x), long-time tech writer and editor Bob Reselman gave a talk called The 7 Rules for Creating World Class Technical Documentation, v.2016, which is based on an article he wrote more than six years ago. In this interview, he offers an update to the rules and talks about how attitudes toward project documentation are changing.
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The Week Magazine
From Aug. 10: U want 2B a better writer? Good writing is often looked at as an art and, frankly, that can be intimidating. No need to worry. There are rules — even science — behind writing well. Our brain works a particular way; so what rules do we need to know to write the way the brain best understands? To find out the answer, I gave Steven Pinker a call. Pinker is a cognitive scientist and linguist at Harvard. He's also on the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary.
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I'd Rather Be Writing
From Nov. 16: In contrast to other non-IT professions, the rapidly evolving pace of technology means that our experience a decade ago is practically obsolete. With new platforms, programming languages, workplace methodologies, and other changes coming on the tech scene every year, IT professionals must implement an approach of continual learning to survive.
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The Next Web
From April 6: A recent design tools survey conducted by Khoi Vinh, one of Fast Company's "fifty most influential designers in America," shows that Photoshop is slowly losing its popularity among designers. Answers from over 4,000 participants hailing from almost 200 countries prove that designers are open to new tools that ease the process of conceptualizing, wireframing, prototyping and designing digital products.
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Business 2 Community
From June 29: There's no faster way to get your audience (and the internet in general) to turn on you than to riddle your writing with typos and other errors. You'd almost be better off with wrong content than poorly written content. It's more obvious. But this can be a challenge. It takes more work to correct. Editing your own writing is difficult because your brain already knows the message you're trying to convey, so it's easy to skim over mistakes without actually seeing them. But so many content marketers are running solo, and even more of us are bootstrapped and time strapped.
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