On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 15:13, Chris Francy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Christopher R Webber > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am finding more and more that conveying my ideas whether technical or for >> a less technical audience is fairly difficult. > > One thing that has helped me is to simply practice. A site like > http://serverfault.com helps me do this. I am far from perfect, but > my boss tells me that my writing has improved over the last couple > years. > > Jeff Atwood recently posted an article about this. > http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/02/how-to-write-without-writing.html > > Chris Francy
(+1) I agree. The most common advice I encounter about improving writing skills is simply to write, and to write often (preferably daily). In the past few years, I have made myself a believer in this advice. And truth be told, you don't have to write tech docs to improve tech writing. Non-technical writing, such as a personal journal or blog, can also improve technical writing. I'm sure the reverse is also true. I don't know about poetry... unless ($Perl); _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
