Dan’s Writing Blog

There are two main methods to launch a successful article marketing campaign. A religious insistence on the right keywords is the first method. I believe that characterizes most of the articles written today for marketing purposes.

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Some companies provide their technical writers with design specs and guidelines.

But what if you are a “lone writer,” an independent contractor working out of your home office, or an employee who is asked to come up with a corporate design guideline?

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One needs to master the mechanical aspects of technical writing as well. A technical writer must have the necessary linguistic and software skills to package information well.

But I wish there wasn’t anything else to technical documentation. The hardest part comes before one even sits down in front of a computer to type the first word.

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Medical writing is a special subset of technical writing that requires familiarity with medical and pharmaceutical terminology. It is a highly recommended writing niche for those with a head for numbers, formulas and general science.

And within the medical writing subset, regulatory writing is another specialty that pays very well since your employers are usually pharmaceutical companies that rarely have any cash problems.

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In technical writing there’s usually more than one way to accomplish any given task.

Let’s say you’re given a Microsoft Word document and there are a lot of different paragraph styles in that document. What will you do when you are asked to right-indent all section headers AT THE SAME TIME by one tab stop and then to also change their colors to RED?

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