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Adding Clarity to Your Writing
This table presents five writing techniques for increasing the clarity of a document (such as eliminating wordiness). A common point for all of these techniques is to reduce as much as possible both the overall word count (less words mean the message is easier to follow), and to reduce syntactic (grammatical) complexity (less complexity reduces…
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A Short Explanation of the Passive Voice
Writers and style guides have warned against using the passive voice for about a century now. Yet, within that same period, some grammarians and linguistics have defended the passive voice’s legitimacy and utility. This blog post will try to explain how. The Active Voice Let’s start with the basics, from grade school. The most basic…
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Some common technical writing style guides
An important tool for technical communicators in all stages of the writing process is a style guide. A Style Guide is a reference guide that standardizes the writing and editing of publications. Editorial teams use them to create consistent and well-written documents. There are many style guides available, with some being more general and other…
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Hello World!
Welcome to WordPress! This is your first post on mine. On this blog, I will share interesting notes on how to do technical writing more effectively.
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A Few Grammatical Rules to Remember
Here are some grammar rules for anybody writers of formal documents to remember. These rules focus on areas where the rules of standard written English differ from more informal registers. In general, formal writing, and technical writing in particular, requires more explicitness and less inference from context. Modern English has three cases in its personal…
Notes on Technical Writing 