technical writing Archives - Words by a Pro https://old.wordsbyapro.com/tag/technical-writing/ Tue, 17 Jul 2018 20:45:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-WBP-FAVICON_7-32x32.jpg technical writing Archives - Words by a Pro https://old.wordsbyapro.com/tag/technical-writing/ 32 32 Policy and Procedure Documents Without Tears https://old.wordsbyapro.com/policy-and-procedure-documents-without-tears/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=policy-and-procedure-documents-without-tears Tue, 17 Jul 2018 20:43:32 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=2896 If you are a professional writer in a corporate setting, and are extremely unlucky, you may be called upon to write policy and procedure (P&P) documents. This is actually a good thing, for the company if not for you. Many P&P documents are written either by lawyers, in which case they are completely incomprehensible, or […]

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]]> Citation Needed: Why Your Writing Depends on Citing Your Sources https://old.wordsbyapro.com/citation-needed-writing-depends-citing-sources/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=citation-needed-writing-depends-citing-sources Tue, 17 Oct 2017 20:47:13 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=2283 Journalists, academics, and Wikipedia contributors have widely varying abilities to put together coherent sentences, but they all know this: Unless it’s a firsthand account, something stated as a fact, without a source to back it up, is merely an opinion. Of course, there are many ways to cite sources, and there is a time and […]

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]]> Numbers Racket: Incorporating Numbers and Math in Your Writing https://old.wordsbyapro.com/numbers-racket-incorporating-numbers-math-writing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=numbers-racket-incorporating-numbers-math-writing Tue, 28 Feb 2017 21:52:17 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=1940 If you’re like most professional writers, you avoid any math more complicated than balancing your checkbook. You might not even do that anymore, since you can just check your bank balance on your phone. A math-free life—how great is that? In some cases, however, you may incorporate numbers or mathematics into your writing—in scientific or […]

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