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For most professionals, writing is a primary part of their job, even though it’s a painful task for many. The good news is that spending more time planning will enable you to streamline the process, reduce writing time, and will result in more effective documents. While planning may seem like an extra step in the process, it’s necessary to help you streamline the writing process and write more cogent,...
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US organizations with 100 or more employees spend more than $70 billion per year on training, according to Training magazine’s 2016 Training Industry Report. Yet industry analysts find that many organizations waste that money on training that is ineffective or doesn’t stick. Is the same true of writing training? After all, isn’t it more likely to be ineffective than other training because people...
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If your employees consider the writing they do for work “hard,” but your company considers it a “soft” skill, you might want to rethink your process. Certain scientific or technical skills fall clearly in the “hard skills” category. Knowledge of certain tools and software, the ability to create and understand engineering tables, and the skill to balance scientific equations...
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As a consumer, you can tell a lot about a product from its technical manual. How a product manual is written, and even the quality of the manual itself, speak volumes to the consumer in terms of what the consumer can expect from the product. Some companies don’t understand that their product manual writing is an extension of the brand and image that the product and company portray. Consider these examples of poorly...
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