writing – Steven Jong

From Technical Writing to Fiction Writing

The writing process is not one of elaboration, but of honing.

The Prudent Technical Writer: What’s Style Got to Do With It?

The value of a style guide is well-established across many writing domains. A style guide standardizes presentation across content and contributors in an organization. Creating a style guide is an important step in the maturation of a technical writing team. The bigger the group, the greater the need, but even a sole contributor should createContinue reading “The Prudent Technical Writer: What’s Style Got to Do With It?”

The Prudent Technical Writer

My father worked at many different jobs in his life. He wound up as a technical writer at Raytheon in the late 1960s and early 1970s, documenting the Hawk, Sparrow, and what became the Patriot missile systems. As it has transpired, I became a second-generation technical writer and spent a full, 40+ year working lifeContinue reading “The Prudent Technical Writer”