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Wednesday, July 27, 2005 6:16 PM

Content Publishing Class: Part One

I attended part one of a four-part class on content quality today. Each class is four hours long. Since it was the introduction class, we talked about pretty high-level stuff the whole time. We broke up into small groups to talk about what quality is
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Friday, July 22, 2005 1:45 PM

Context in Topics

The documentation team I'm on is starting to write topics for a new product. It's a fairly small documentation set as far as topics that explain how to do things—around 50 topics. (I'm not counting API reference topics, of which there will be hundreds.
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Wednesday, July 20, 2005 8:22 AM

Voice in Technical Writing

The next version of Windows has the code name Longhorn. That's not really a secret; you can read about it on the Longhorn page on the Microsoft Web site. I went to a presentation about the Longhorn voice, where they described the philosophy behind the
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Friday, July 15, 2005 1:18 PM

Thoughts from Other Microsoft Editors

A couple other technical editors here at Microsoft have recently posted their thoughts. Mike Pope: The job of me Jo Molnar: Using Help (or How I Spent My Summer Vacation)
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Thursday, July 14, 2005 8:01 AM

Highlighting Action

When I was doing mostly writing, the usability engineer for my team told me to write all topics in such a way as to invite action. He said that the reader should come away knowing specifically how to implement the knowledge in the topic, and shouldn't
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