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New Release: The Technical Writer's Checklist

ITrain has just released The Technical Writer's Checklist, the guide for accurate writing.

Using this complete checklist of 73 detailed procedures and over 323 examples and suggestions, you'll see immediate improvement in your technical writing.

Step-by-step, you'll learn how to create paragraph unity, cohesion, and logical bridges; ensure proper word choice; and the perennial favorite: passive versus active voice. Learn to add punch to your writing and make your students want to learn more. Do you know how to best write for your audience's reading level? You will after following the steps in this guide.

The Technical Writer's Checklist walks you through the steps you must take to become a great technical writer, a skill required of all trainers.

And there are no boring, time-consuming grammar exercises!

Each book is printed in color and bound so that it will easily lay flat as you work through the detailed checklist with over over 323 examples and suggestions.

The Technical Writer's Checklist, Volume 1

Paper, bound, $14.95 ea.

Plan your writing
Write only what should be read
Get your facts straight
Write, rewrite, rewrite again
Check grammar, spelling, and style
Select efficient words
Write concisely
Write positively
Place frequently misused words in context
Avoid redundancy
Vary your sentence structure
Use active voice
Understand the value of passive voice
Recognize passive voice
Avoid sentence fragments
Beware of run-on sentences
Don't overuse commas
Write effective paragraphs
Create unity
Add coherence
Build logical bridges
Include an enticing topic sentence
Develop each paragraph fully
Be sure subjects and verbs agree
Make company names singular
Use plural nouns and pronouns
Properly use indefinite pronouns
Avoid gender-specific language
Use nondiscriminatory language
Use parallel words or phrases in lists and series
Use bullets correctly
Capitalize correctly
Write numbers correctly
Write with confidence
Use a courteous and sincere tone
Avoid inappropriate abbreviations
Use your dictionary
Proofread carefully

The Technical Writer's Checklist, Volume 2

Paper, bound, $14.95 ea.

Use articles accurately
Countable nouns
Quantify countable nouns
Non-countable nouns
Non-countable expressions
Non-countable noun predecessors
Combine articles and conjunctions
Beware of split infinitives
Know when to end a sentence witha preposition
Don't begin a sentence with a conjunction
Use "between" for only two, "among" for more
I'm hopeful that you'll understand hopefully
Use over and more than
Avoid forwards and towards
Know who the people are
Since that's the way it is
Momentarily is more than just a moment
Scan vs. skim
"Off of" is awful
Gotten vs. got
Bad vs. badly
Preventitive vs. preventative
People are healthy; vegetables are healthful
Regardless of AOL, you have mail
Regardless; it's not irregardless
Possessive acronyms
Singular and plural possessives
For example that is
Binding landscape pages
One or two spaces
Curtailing an indirect question
Omitting words in a quotation
Omitting sentences within a quotation
End a sentence with a single period
Punctuate quotation marks

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updated October 02, 2007