In the modern “fake news” era, “facts” are increasingly flexible rather than tangible, provable, stable things. People increasingly accept opinions and gut feelings as more valid than expert knowledge ...

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Most technical communicators have worked for employers that mistook activity for productivity and have tried to teach our bosses the difference between churning out words and crafting useful ...

As a creative, I struggle at times with many stereotypical issues other creatives face in the technical writing field. I work best at night, my brain is thinking of zillions of things at once, I ...

View our most recent TechWhirl Fast 5, featuring Dr.Erika Konrad from Northern Arizona University, and students Chris Farmer and Jessica Lewis, where we discuss their perspectives on creativity and ...

This recent interview between Erika Konrad, of NAU and student Chris Farmer, goes in depth into the world of AI contributors and training. Chris, I understand that you are an AI trainer. What does ...

In an earlier article, I argued that technical communication makes up about 50% of the user experience process for a product. In this pretty straight-forward argument, I posited that no matter how ...

Almost no one would dispute the fact that Artificial Intelligence is expanding and evolving on a daily basis. AI is already changing how content developers approach their tasks, and is creating a lot ...

One of the pleasures of Microsoft Word is how you can combine innocuous basic tools to accomplish surprisingly large tasks—to make Word work for you, not against you. Those tools tend to be present ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) currently dominates news and media coverage, including the big questions around the speed of its evolution and the ethics of its use. Joshua Lee, a writer, college ...

Opportunities for technical writing abound across the regulatory landscape, and writing medical device instructions for use (IFUs) is one such opportunity. Finding and staying on this path, however, ...

Editors Note: This User Guide Template is one in a series of templates to help readers plan and manage communications and content management activities, resources and deliverables. We welcome ideas ...