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- Job Title:
- Technical Writer
- Company Name:
- MWEB
- About Me:
- I am a technical communicator at a large African ISP and I haven't lost my evangelical fervour for the empowering potential of the Internet. Apart from researching, writing and editing, I manage a small documentation team. Our documentation is targeted at call-centre staff.
Specialities:
- Researching and writing reference & training material
- Online Help
- Production of PDFs that follow a Help-file format
- Editing of training material & company communications
- ICT Journalism
- Copywriting -- online & below the line
- English/Afrikaans and Afrikaans/English translation
And I love jazz. Heavy but not too avant-garde. John Coltrane is a good example.
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Punctuation in Lists
See the University of Alabama's Style Manual for pointers on correct punctuation when writing vertical lists.
Posted on March 31st, 2008 at 3:51pm —
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Format Fatigue
As audiences grow and format options proliferate, it's never been more important to find out how to do my job better. I've been keeping it simple, but must acknowledge that simple is not always smart. Some background:
- In 1992, I wrote in MultiMate II.
- From 1995 to 1999, it was MS Word with a sprinkling of HTML.
- I wrote only in HTML from the end of 1999 to 2001.
- Then it was MS Word again, and it's still my source editor, albeit with the …
Posted on March 11th, 2008 at 11:30am —
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