On 2011 Feb 15, at 10:28, Christopher R Webber wrote: > I am finding more and more that conveying my ideas whether technical or > for a less technical audience is fairly difficult. Can anyone recommend a > technical or business writing class that is well suited to the needs of a > SysAdmin? Obviously, free online tutorials would be a great starting > point, but if people are aware of good online classes, that would be great > too!
Find a writing workshop and write fiction or memoir or something. Critique other people's writing weekly as a part of the workshop. Get feedback on your own writing. (I write this as I should be finishing up my critiques for a writing workshop I'm in.) You'd be amazed how much transfers. Being aware of how to phrase sentences for clarity is very transferrable from writing for fun vs writing for a technical audience. On the bonus, you have an activity you can actually look forward to each week (assuming it is a weekly writing workshop). ---- "The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue." Edward R Murrow (1964) Mark McCullough [email protected] _______________________________________________ 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/
