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Q&A Should I use contractions in a technical tutorial?

In a technical tutorial which fits better: In this tutorial you'll learn or In this tutorial you will learn or in general does it make no difference?

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by learnAndImprove‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by heldsos‭

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Q&A Ways to replace the phrase "after all?"

I recently noticed I use "after all" very often. But unlike other phrases, I never seem to find a way to replace it. Some examples: Like the books, they hadn't moved a single inch. Erin found t...

1 answer  ·  posted 10y ago by Alexandro Chen‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Avoiding racist tropes in fantasy

I'm interested in starting a pleasure project: a fantasy story, along the lines of a witch delivering a prophecy to a king about a dangerous and deceitful foe who will overthrow him, and the king e...

9 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by weakdna says reinstate monica‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by James McLellan‭

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Q&A How can I make the plagiarism detector "Ithenticate" identify "θ-continuous" as a single word?

I have a problem with the similarity index of one of my works since the plagiarism detector "Ithenticate" identifies θ-continuous as continuous. In my university, all that matters is the similarity...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Heba ‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A How I should handle gender-neutral pronouns in technical writing?

I am writing API documentation for a mobile loyalty program and I am not sure which of the following is better wording: 1) When the user requests for their visit and order to be registered in thei...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Manmohan Singh‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Amadeus‭

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Q&A How do you track dependencies for your co-authors?

I and one or more co-authors, sometimes geographically distributed, are working on a set of related documents. Sometimes I will make a change in my part that affects someone else's part; this coul...

4 answers  ·  posted 12y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A An alternative to saying 'users' when describing features

I'm creating some copy describing new web-app features for a number of different audiences (users, managers of sections of the site, owners of sub-sites which use our platform etc.). I'm finding m...

3 answers  ·  posted 12y ago by robomc‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A What is special in API documentation compared to general technical writing?

The title says it all: what is special in Application Programming Interface documentation compared to general technical writing? What aspects should I take care of?

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Gergely‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Technical Writing Software

I'm interested in newer software/software stack to use in writing technical papers. For the longest time I have been use LaTeX to handle this but in looking at getting longer pieces published, such...

6 answers  ·  posted 12y ago by Travis‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Using LaTeX with publishers?

Background: Im working on a rather long instructional book, and have just started trying to use LaTeX. The book doesn't have any scientific notation in it, and most of the diagrams I made in other ...

0 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by elburzs‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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