Activity for Montag451‭

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Edit	Post #17500	Initial revision	—	about 5 years ago
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Edit	Post #12880	Initial revision	—	about 5 years ago
Edit	Post #12851	Initial revision	—	about 5 years ago
Question	—	How to structure the text when describing the steps of a procedure which has simultaneous processes? I have to further explain my intent here. I'm writing down some procedures in operating manuals and servicing manuals. I mostly use numbered lists and sometimes just bulleted lists. Recently I started to realize that some of the steps that I've written were in fact not ordered steps but parallel proc... (more)	—	over 8 years ago
Question	—	Can basic grammar rules be skipped when writing text for machine safety labels? First of all I'm completely against this idea but a few people who contribute to the technical documentation project constantly suggest that to attain a short, quick, economic, comprehensive message some basic rules can be broken. Things like completely omitting the articles, using simpler words to e... (more)	—	over 8 years ago
Question	—	What's the common practice for warranty chapters in technical manuals? I'm working on a technical manual project for industrial machines and the original documents have some warranty warnings and statements at the beginning. We decided to keep them on the new documents but there were some objections from the team members. They've suggested to separate the warranty chapt... (more)	—	over 9 years ago
Question	—	Technical Documentation Voice Preference : "Active Voice" - "Passive Voice" - A Mixture of both We are working on a technical documentation project which includes the rewriting, modernization, restructuring, enrichment of the content. I'm doing the content rewriting and translation parts of the job and my voice preference has always been on "passive" but sometimes the urge to switch to the acti... (more)	—	over 9 years ago