tech writing best practices

Technical Writing: 6 Best Practices for Effective Content

Writing is both an art and a science, with some styles leaning more toward one attribute than the other. For example, content writing is meant to educate, entertain, inform, or inspire to grab a reader’s attention and build relationships with their intended audience. Social media posts, company blogs, web content, and advertising/marketing content are all …

Read more

Stack of useless technical manuals

Useful or Useless: How to Tell If Your Manual Needs An Overhaul

Various types of technical manuals are meant to make complex information more accessible to end users. However, we’ve all experienced the mind-numbing frustration of trying to follow documents with too much technical jargon that are difficult to understand. Bad user guides make the reader feel frustrated and create more questions than answers. Poorly written instructions …

Read more

How to Create Better User Manuals Video Poster

ProEdit How-to Videos

Discover helpful how-to videos for writers, editors, instructional designers, and hiring managers.