If there’s one thing the “My Blackberry Is Not Working!” sketch shows, it’s that your terminology may not always be understood by everyone:
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Take the Cherryleaf quiz on Technical Communication
For the holiday season, we’ve created a simple six question quiz for you to try. It includes questions on some of the topics we’ve covered in our blog during 2010: Cherryleaf Technical Writing Quiz (Opens in new window) It’s just for fun, but if you’d like to tell us how you fared, please comment below.
Hyundai uses an iPad as a driver’s manual
According to Hyundai USA There’s nothing worse than buying a new luxury car only to sit down and have to learn about it through a boring owner’s manual. Thankfully, every Equus comes with a 16GB WiFi Apple iPad, and instead of the boring owner’s manual, the Equus Owner’s Experience app teaches you everything you need… Read more »
What word clouds can tell you about your user guides
Someday, some clever person will do a statistical analysis of the frequency of words contained in different user guides to help us gain a better understanding of how to make the best user guide possible. In the meantime, we can use Wordle to give us a glimpse into a few user manuals. Wordle generates “word… Read more »
Teaching technical communication to schoolchildren
We’ve been asked to participate in an event at a school in Westminster promoting writing skills and literacy to their Year 8 (13 yr old) students. The goal is to showcase job roles in different sectors that use written communication skills as a key part of the job. So how do you explain technical writing to… Read more »