#34489
Creating Topics: Where do you Draw the Line?
It's hard to look at a page of text and try to decide where to divide things to create individual topics. That "bottom up" approach is kind of pointless, in fact. There are better ways.
Armstrong, Eric. Sun Microsystems (2008). Articles>Documentation>Information Design>Technical Writing
#34573
Writing with Bullets, A Bit Too Much
Bullets definitely have their place in writing. But far too often, they're used to replace crisp, well-thought-out writing.
Nesbitt, Scott. ScottNesbitt.net (2009). Articles>Information Design>Advice>Writing
#34907
オンラインコンテンツは、文脈とは無関係にユーザーの目にとまることが多い。本来想定された目的とは違う目的で読まれることもよくある。そうした目的を全部予測することはできないが、テキストのさまざまな利用を考慮することはできる。
Nielsen, Jakob. Usability.gr.jp (2009). (Japanese) Articles>Content Management>Writing>Information Design
#35297
A Content Curator is someone who continually finds, groups, organizes and shares the best and most relevant content on a specific issue online. I think that professional writers and technical writers should consider a move towards this role. We already search for and find the best content, sift through loads of content, discard poor content, and publish the most worthy content whenever a software release goes out. This description also sounds like something a content strategist would do as part of their analysis of the content.
Gentle, Anne. Just Write Click (2009). Articles>Content Management>Information Design>Technical Writing
#35321
Breaking Up Large Documents for the Web - Part 2
One page or separate pages? When faced with that decision, ask yourself these questions: How much do people want in one visit? How connected is the information? Am I overloading my site visitors? How long is the web page? What’s the download time? Will people want to print? How much will they want to print?
Redish, Janice C. 'Ginny'. User Interface Engineering (2009). Articles>Web Design>Information Design>Writing
#35787
Structure is a key component to anything that you write. In this blog post, Scott Nesbitt discusses the importance of structure in the context of using the LaTeX typesetting language.
Nesbitt, Scott. DMN Communications (2009). Articles>Writing>Information Design>LaTeX
