This TECHWR-L section features articles, topic summaries, and examples to help you develop and improve writing skills, plan and implement technical documents, and work with SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) to get feedback on the documents you product.

Grammar, Style, and Writing

This feature area includes grammar and other writing-related articles.

Escape from the Grammar Trap, by Jean Hollis Weber

This article covers some reasons why editors focus on details and not the bigger picture; describes how much attention technical communicators should pay to formal rules of grammar, punctuation, and usage; and describes how we can distinguish between essential and nonessential rules of grammar, punctuation, and usage.

Social Rules for Creating a Style Guide, by Tom H. Johnson

Many writers look at a new style guide the way the Greeks should have looked at the Trojans' wooden horse. Never fear -- Tom H. Johnson gives you on-the-ground tactical advice on winning over the populace and avoiding all-out war!