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Major Types and Various Styles of Writing

Suggested Pre-Reading Building Blocks of Writing: Vocabulary, Spelling, and Grammar Writing Process: Planning, Organizing, Writing, and Reviewing Sections of This Topic Include Major Types of Writing Various Styles of Writing Also, consider Communications (Interpersonal) Communications (Organizational) Interpersonal Skills Related Library Topics Learn More in the Library’s Blogs Related to Business Writing In addition to the …

Brief Annotated Bibliography for the Business Writer

Contributed by Deane Gradous, Twin Cities consultant: annotated bibliography of a business partner American Heritage Dictionary (2nd Ed.). (1982). Boston: Houghton Mifflin. A dictionary is essential, even in the days of word processing programs with spell-check features. Besides listing words and word forms not included in most computer dictionaries, the American Heritage Dictionary provides usage …

Becoming A Technical Writer-Communicator Review

I am seeing there is still a great interest in people wanting to become Technical Writers. For that reason, I am going to review some steps to become one. If you are currently employed: • write about your job and what the requirements are for that position. • write about all your daily tasks and …

Communicating Globally

How do you currently communicate globally? Before our modern techniques (of using the web, mobile devices or videos, Skype, etc.,) for communicating, the time it took to converse or correspond internationally took quite a while and we weren’t even sure of how the recipient reacted to what was delivered. But now we can know immediately …

Right Vs Left Brain Communicators

Are Technical Communicators/Writers more right-brain or left-brain thinkers? In a previous post about a technical writers soft skills (https://management.org/blogs/communications/2013/03/05/soft-skills-of-a-technical-writer/) , I defined the soft skills of technical writers as being made up of communication, emotion, concentration, and common sense. …...’ It is being able to see and interpret the whole picture and to translate it …

Displaying Technical Writing Skills

If you are a beginning Technical Writer or an experienced Technical Writer, how do you, respectively, display your skills and find your first job or find more jobs in technical writing? Here are some tips: For beginners, write about your job – begin writing in your current job about all that you know, and make …