Technical Writing Simplified

https://youtu.be/h0dHLhpS5M8

Want To Write A Technical Blog Post?

 

From YouTube:

"Quincy's the editor of Medium's largest technical blog. He shows you how to write and promote your technical blog posts.
Follow Quincy Larson at twitter.com/ossia

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Check out the Free Code Camp channel for original software training videos: https://www.youtube.com/freecodecamp"

https://youtu.be/YODPgBadj80

Technical Writing At Wikiversity

What is Wikiversity?

"Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning. We invite teachers, students, and researchers to join us in creating open educational resources and collaborative learning communities. To learn more about Wikiversity, try a guided tour, learn about adding content, or start editing now.*"

Can You Describe the Technical Writing Courses?

"We offer you Level 1 and Level 2 courses in technical writing, plus a workshop on writing system requirement specifications. We constantly update and restructure our content. We also welcome your active participation in building and improving this learning community.

All technical writing and analysis course work is free for you to use, copy, modify, and adapt as you see fit. This is open source learning.**"

Technical Writing Levels?

• Level 1 - An Introduction to Technical Writing

• Level 2 - Topics in Technical Writing

*https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page
**https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Technical_writing

7 Big Reasons To Contribute To Opensource

Opensource tells us why we should contribute.

1. Career benefits: "I probably would not have gotten my most recent job if it had not been for my articles on Opensource.com."
2. Raise awareness: "The platform and publicity that is available through Opensource.com is extremely valuable."
3. Grow your network: "I met a lot of interesting people after that, boosted my blog stats immediately, and even got some business offers!"
4. Contribute back to open source communities: "Writing for Opensource.com has allowed me to give back to a community of users and developers from whom I have truly benefited for many years."
5. Receive free, professional editing services: "The team helps me, through feedback, on improving my writing skills."
6. We're loveable: "I love the Opensource.com team. I have known some of them for years and they are good people."
7. Writing for us is easy: "I couldn't have been more pleased with my writing experience."

https://opensource.com/how-submit-article

Free Online Technical Writing Textbook

The sections of the complete textbook are:

• Introduction: Technical Writing
• Applications of Technical Writing
• Document Design
• Processes and Guidelines in Technical Writing
• Examples, Cases & Models: Index

https://www.prismnet.com/~hcexres/textbook/

Floss Manuals

"FLOSS Manuals is more than a collection of manuals about Free Software, it is also the community. The writers include professional authors, editors, artists, software developers, activists, and many others. Anyone can contribute to FM to fix a spelling mistake, change details, write a new chapter, or start a new manual.

Our core aim is making it easy to maintain and contribute to manuals, text books, teaching materials by providing an easy to use interface for collaborating on the creation of texts about Free Software."

About FLOSS

"FLOSS Manuals (FM) is a collection of different language communities that produce original documentation about Free Software. This site is the home for the FLOSS Manuals Foundation (FMF), which oversees and supports the general activities of the various language communities:

English: http://en.flossmanuals.net | 

Farsi: http://fa.flossmanuals.net| 

Finnish: http://fi.flossmanuals.net | 

French: http://fr.flossmanuals.net | 

Netherlands:  http://nl.flossmanuals.net |"

http://www.flossmanuals.org/