Here’s the scenario: You’re finishing up your latest HTML Help project…no more late nights or weekends…back to a “normal” 50-hour work week. That’s when the development team lead strolls into your ...

Editor’s Note: The following piece, by Jean Hollis Weber, is part of our collection of “classics”–articles that stand the test of time no matter how many technologies come and go. Don’t forget to ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) manages Tennessee’s Grey Cliffs lake and wilderness to control flooding and generate hydro power. For generations, it’s also been a beloved recreation area. At ...

I was browsing through a long list of contract opportunities for technical writers on the Internet, when I spotted one from a manufacturing company looking for a documentation specialist. It stated ...

Editor’s Note: The following piece, by M. Katherine Brown, is part of our collection of “classics”–articles that stand the test of time no matter how many technologies come and go. Mention team ...

All structured writing must eventually be published. Publishing structured content mean transforming it from the domain in which it was created (subject domain, document domain, or the abstract end of ...

In Implementing Onscreen Editing (Hart 2019; ), I describe how to implement or revise a writing and revision process across an organization. The book is based on my personal experience with two ...

Editor’s Note: Mark Baker begins his ongoing series on Structured Writing by framing a working definition. Look for future articles on the key concepts of structured writing and their practical ...

It started innocently enough: People who sell medical devices in the US get inspected by FDA. Makes sense, right? But if they want to sell outside the US, they get audited for ISO standards. If they ...

Playing the Short Game: How to Market & Sell Short Fiction is an ideal book for writers who want a no-nonsense primer on how to start selling short stories. (It’s not about writing style or how to ...

I’m about to start doing my taxes on my own for the first time. How hard can it be? All I do is put a bunch of info on a form and send it to the IRS. Oh no! Oh, what a mess. I wonder who’s watching me ...

TechWhirl recently sat down with Barry Saiff of Saiff Solutions to talk outsourcing, debunking a few myths and shining some light on how to make practical decisions on managing content creation ...