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Bookmarks tagged [writing]

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kylelobo/The-Documentation-Compendium

https://github.com/kylelobo/The-Documentation-Compendium

Various README templates & tips on writing high-quality documentation that people want to read.

Documentation Guide — Write the Docs

https://www.writethedocs.org/guide/

This guide gathers the collective wisdom of the Write the Docs community around best practices for creating software documentation.

awesome-book-authoring

https://github.com/TalAter/awesome-book-authoring#readme

:books: A collection of awesome resources for technical book authors - TalAter/awesome-book-authoring

Drivel Defence text

http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/drivel-defence-text.html

This tools numbers to words in your sentences in a nice report.

Plain English Campaign is an independent group fighting for plain English in public communication. We oppose gobbledygook, jargon and l...

Gunning Fog Index

http://gunning-fog-index.com/

This is a tool that tries to calculate the Gunning Fog Index. It is a weighted average of the number of words per sentence, and the number of long words per word. An interpretation is that the text ca...

A to Z of Alternative Words

http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/files/alternative.pdf

If you find yourself about to write, type or dictate a word you wouldn’t use in every day conversation, look it up in the A to Z. You should find a simpler alternative. Often there will be a choice of...

The Up-Goer Five Text Editor

http://splasho.com/upgoer5/

CAN YOU EXPLAIN A HARD IDEA USING ONLY THE TEN HUNDRED MOST USED WORDS? IT'S NOT VERY EASY. TYPE IN THE BOX TO TRY IT OUT.

Hemingway Editor

http://www.hemingwayapp.com/

Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear. It's like a spellchecker, but for style. It makes sure that your reader will focus on your message, not your prose.

How to write a cover letter - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AaEvnVjrRc&feature=youtu.be

Writing a great cover letter starts with understanding its purpose. A cover letter’s job isn’t to get you the job. It’s to get you an interview.

  • :calendar: published on: 2018-01-30
  • tags: job, writing

Inverted pyramid (journalism) - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)

The widest part at the top represents the most substantial, interesting, and important information that the writer means to convey, illustrating that this kind of material should head the article, whi...

How to Write a Technical Book

http://www.ambysoft.com/books/bookWriting.html

The goal of this page is to share my hard-won experiences writing books. The bad news is that writing a book is hard work and frankly it can be very difficult to break into the publishing industry. ...

How to write an awesome introduction for your nonfiction book

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140818005915-47802955-how-to-write-an-awesome-introduction-for-your...

So many writers focus on the body of their book – the key points they’ll use to express their argument, which case studies would work, which experts to quote, etc. – that they forget about their intro...

  • :calendar: published on: 2014-08-18
  • tags: writing

John Resig - Programming Book Profits

https://johnresig.com/blog/programming-book-profits/

As I begin working on my second book I’ve gone back and realized that there’s a lot of things that I wish I knew before I started writing my first book way back in March of 2006.

iamleeg: On writing a book

http://iamleeg.blogspot.ch/2010/04/on-writing-book.html

This post is about the author's experiences writing a book, not the book material itself.

  • :calendar: published on: 2010-04-02
  • tags: writing

A manifesto for the simple scribe – my 25 commandments for journalists | Tim Radford | Science | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2011/jan/19/manifesto-simple-scribe-commandments-journalist...

Former Guardian science editor, letters editor, arts editor and literary editor Tim Radford has condensed his journalistic experience into a handy set of rules for aspiring hacks

Good Copy, Bad Copy » Blog Archive How your culture shapes the way you write -

https://www.dorisandbertie.com/goodcopybadcopy/2016/10/07/culture-shapes-way-write/

In Anglo-Saxon cultures such as the UK, the US and Australia, the burden is on the writer to make their meaning clear.

In these cultures, if a reader fails to understand what a writer is trying to sa...