Excellent advice; thank you for your post! Writing clearly and concisely is truly an art form. I notice that my first drafts for technical writing are always too long. It helps to revisit these drafts day after day to help whittle them down to their essential elements.
Excellent advice; thank you for your post! Writing clearly and concisely is truly an art form. I notice that my first drafts for technical writing are always too long. It helps to revisit these drafts day after day to help whittle them down to their essential elements.
Yes! Revisiting drafts multiple times and be your own devil’s advocate can help improve technical writing drastically :)
Collaborator feedback is also very useful. I'm always grateful for those willing to read my writing and provide feedback
Another way that greatly improves writing is to keep a scrapbook.
Keep a scrapbook of the best writing you have seen.
Saw a succinct written communication to an executive? Document it in your scrapbook.
Saw an elegantly structured slide? Document it in your scrapbook.
Look back at your scrapbook once in a while and you will learn a lot.