awesome-technical-writing
A curated list of awesome resources: articles, books, videos, tools, podcasts about technical writing.
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A curated list of resources and tools for technical writers and developers to improve documentation and writing skills
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Community
Courses
Books
- Docs for Developers: An Engineer’s Field Guide to Technical Writing
by Jared Bhatti, Zach Corleissen, Jen Lambourne, David Nuñez, and Heidi Waterhouse
- The Developer's Guide to Content Creation
by Stephanie Morillo
- The Developer's Guide to Creating a Successful Blog
by Flavio Copes
- Technical Writing for Dummies
by Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts
- The Handbook of Technical Writing
by Gerald J. Alre, Walter E. Oliu, and Charles T. Brusaw
- How To Write Usable User Documentation
by Edmond H. Weiss
- Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works
by Janice Redish
- The Product is Docs: Writing Technical Documentation in a Product Development Group
by Christopher Gales and Splunk Documentation Team
- Modern Technical Writing: An Introduction to Software
by Andrew Etter
- Software Technical Writing: A Guidebook
by James Gallagher
Style Guides
Useful Tools
Technical Writing Template
A sample template with guidelines for writing technical articles
Paid Community Writer Programs
A list of companies that have paid developer community writer programs
- Who Pays Technical Writers?
A curated collection of active publishers, publications, and agencies that pay fair rates for high-quality technical content
- Diátaxis Documentation System
A systematic approach to creating better documentation
- HackMD
Real-time collaborate on technical documentation in markdown
- Dropbox Paper
A flexible workspace for collaborative document-editing
- Google Docs
Smart editing and styling tools to help you easily format text and paragraphs
- Notion
The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis and databases
- Notion AI
Leverage the limitless power of AI in any Notion page, write faster and augment your creativity
- Grammarly
a writing assistant that goes deeper than grammar to offer you comprehensive writing feedback
- Canva
A graphic design platform that allows you to create social media graphics, and other visual content
- TinyPNG
Smart PNG and JPEG image compression
- Full Page Screen Capture
The simplest way to take a full page screenshot of your current browser window
- Awesome Screenshot: Screen Video Recorder
Screen Capture full page screenshot and recorder for screencast
Readme Markdown Generator
CLI that generates beautiful README.md files
- Capture to a Gif
Record content of pages to an animated gif picture from browser
- Microsoft Word
Spelling, grammar, and intelligent suggestions to assist you across documents, email, and on the web
Log4brains
Docs-as-code knowledge base to manage Architecture Decision Records (ADR) for your project and publish them automatically as a static website
- Antidote
The corrector analyzes your text and flags any detections
- LanguageTool
Open-source writing assistant, an alternative to Grammarly
- HemingwayApp
Hemingway App makes your writing bold and clear. Helps fix long & complex sentences
- ChatGPT
A conversational chatbot that can generate human-like responses to natural language prompts
TextCraft
Add-in for Microsoft Word that seamlessly integrates essential AI tools, including text generation, proofreading, and more, directly into the user interface
Resources
Videos
Podcasts
- The Manuscript Podcast
The intersection of writing and the development of technology products
- The Manuscript Academy Podcast
Interviews with agents and editors, how-to tips, and behind-the-scenes looks at the creation of the Academy
- Write the Docs Podcast
The Write the Docs Podcast publishes discussion-style podcasts focusing on topics related to the Write the Docs community
- The Not-Boring Tech Writer
The Not-Boring Tech Writer podcast introduces technical writers skills used in the open data movement
Conferences
Speaker Decks
Some Technical Writers to follow
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