After reading Making Data Meaningful, Part 1, A guide to writing stories about numbers (a free document from the United Nations), I’m considering making it a prerequisite for all my technical writing classes. Nearly everything it says agrees with what I teach, and there’s even more information than I can cover in class (or in [...]
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A few of my favorite things: Making Data Meaningful
December 29th, 2010 by Bette Frick · No Comments · Business Tips, Copywriting, Technical Writing
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Two cool presentation tools
December 27th, 2010 by Bette Frick · No Comments · Software and Design Tools, Technical Writing, Writing Tools
The periodic table of visualization methods I often joke that I was born without a right hemisphere in my brain, but my lack of visualization abilities really has limited me in my writing and presentations. That’s why I was so glad to discover The periodic table of visualization methods. Run your mouse over any of [...]
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The Yahoo! Style Guide
December 27th, 2010 by Bette Frick · No Comments · Technical Writing, Writing Tools
I just learned of the Yahoo! Style Guide online (you can buy it for $14.95 on Amazon). The online version has some interesting quick links; I was fascinated by their word list (is it 24/7 or 24-7?) Their list would be a good model for your own customized word list; I always like having preferred [...]
