1. Writing Your Report - 5 Mistakes You Don't Want to Make by Charles Howell
   
   When writing academic reports, whether it be a simple essay, a thesis, or a dissertation, it's important to watch out for the little mistakes that can easily change your grade by more than 10%. In having graded hundreds, if not thousands of technical reports from students, I have noticed that there are five BIG mistakes, that many students make, and are easily avoidable.
   
   
2. Grant Writing - The Closest Thing to a Guarantee by Phil Johncock
   
   Unless you have the opportunity for an oral presentation or defense of your proposal (which occasionally happens), once your proposal has been submitted, there is nothing to do but wait and respond to the decision positively. It is helpful to think that it may take you up to three tries to get the funding you request. Knowing this lets you reframe a rejection into a positive outcome: success.
   
   
3. Three Hints That You Need a Technical Writer by Jane Sumerset
   
   Some businesses, especially those who consider themselves small, try to make do without a technical writer. While some organizations can afford not to have them, technical writers are actually necessary to a handful of enterprises. Here are some of the situations and importance why you should need a technical writer to help out your business...
   
   
4. Grant Writing Classes - Five Facts to Note by Liz Etchison
   
   Grant writing classes are a wonderful resource for aspiring grant writers to learn the basics and finer points of grant writing. Online grant writing classes are a very popular option as they are easily accessible.
   
   
5. Getting to Know Your Client - The Importance of Communication by Cathryn Branch
   
   Getting to Know Your Client is the second article in the Virtual Grant Writer series. In this article we discuss the importance of the skill of communication.
   
   
6. Grant Writing Jobs - Five Facts You Don't Want to Ignore by Liz Etchison
   
   Grant writing jobs can be very lucrative but have you got what it takes. Below are five facts that can make a world of difference.
   
   
7. Becoming a Good Technical Writer by Elizabeth Armenta
   
   What is good technical writing vs. bad technical writing? How can I become a better technical writer? Here are some tips.
   
   
8. Grant Strategy - Five Tips You Should Cautiously Apply by Liz Etchison
   
   In the world of grant writing, everyone has a grant strategy. With every strategy comes a number of tips which unfortunately can be over exaggerated or even taken to the extreme by many eager grant writers.
   
   
9. Eleven Different Acronyms in Seven Sentences - Come on Help Me Out Here by Lance Winslow
   
   For those that do technical writing, especially those which are writing in a very industry specific niche to people in the industry, they realize that there is a vernacular, and there are industry buzz words that go along with it. They also realize these buzzwords and acronyms must be used for the paper, report, research, or manual to be taken seriously. But, I'd like to seriously ask the technical writers how on earth they can justify using 11 acronyms in seven sentences?
   
   
10. Grant Writing - How Can 80% Be So Wrong? by Phil Johncock
    
    One of the top complaints from grant funders is the huge percentage of proposals they receive that do not even match their funding priorities. As many as eight out of ten proposals don't fit. That's 80%! If you want to set yourself up for failure in grant writing, be amongst this 80%.
    
    
11. Key Factors of Technical Writing by Angel Wood
    
    Technical Writing is a kind of writing that translates technical and scientific information in a simpler language. This form of writing concerns with the technology. A writer simplifies the information about the technology or science. One uses this form of writing by keeping the perspective of a reader in mind.
    
    
12. Grant Writing - What is Grant Writing? by Phil Johncock
    
    Grants are funds given by a grant maker to a recipient that does not have to be paid back, as with a loan. This article includes common grant makers and recipients. It also includes a definition of "grant writing" that will probably surprise you. Grant writing is 50% art and 50% science. Find out why. Plus, discover how to increase your chances of being funded.
    
    
13. Grant Writing - Five Common Mistakes to Avoid by Liz Etchison
    
    Many times during grant writing, you'll find yourself looking back on previous work and cringing. Fortunately, the Internet offers you something that many grant writers haven't had access to before - the ability to learn from the mistakes of other people.
    
    
14. Successful Policies & Procedures Writing Projects - Proven Strategies by Juliet Kontaxis
    
    Looking to write a procedures manual which will be valued as a resource by your organization? Understanding some key strategies will help you develop a manual which will be an asset to your organization, while minimizing your investment of time and resources.
    
    
15. Winning Government Contracts - The Magic Letters in Preparing Proposals For the Government ("H-O-W") by Ed Benjamin
    
    This article provides readers with a tested method which will enable them to write dynamic proposals. Use of this method will give companies who use a greater advantage in winning a coveted government contract.
    
    
16. Identifying Audiences by Natalie Harris
    
    Early in the process of thinking about a topic, you should identify your audience and the purpose of the document you are writing. Being in the IT field and dealing with many business and IT audiences, I have to make sure to inquire about who the audience is, as it will greatly vary the contents and language I use.
    
    
17. The Career Growth of a Technical Writer by Prashant T Verma
    
    The growth pattern of a technical writer is not standardised and it is strongly depended upon the individual professional and firm. They have bright chances to move up the corporate ladder in a radical manner which may begin with an associate or documentation expert to being a senior technical writer and then heading to documentation head leading a team of tech writers.
    
    
18. How Style Guides Help Technical Writers? by Prashant T Verma
    
    Technical writing is more about following the standards and maintaining consistency in writing. Anyone can write but the challenge is to write precise, simple and accurate. There are several style guides which help in this regard.
    
    
19. Help Authoring Tools That Aid Technical Writers by Prashant T Verma
    
    Help Authoring is a relatively new term, however it has been around for a while now. The importance of technical documentation has been well accepted by both the software developers and users. The users find it easy to refer to the online help and other documentation at the first place whenever they find it difficult to use the software at any stage.
    
    
20. How to Write Technical Materials For Your Audience by Jane Sumerset
    
    Writing for an audience sucks. That's because you'll always have to put their reaction to your material as a first consideration.
    
    
21. Documenting Large Projects by Natalie Harris
    
    Being in IT, I see a lot of large projects that need to be documented. A large documentation project is any project requiring more than one or two people and producing more than one volume of documentation. In some instances, a documentation team may have hundreds of contributors and produce many volumes of documentation of many different types.
    
    
22. The Virtual Grant Writer by Cathryn Branch
    
    Discovering the skills necessary to become a virtual grant writer. They will increase your productivity and your ability to write a successful proposal.
    
    
23. Jewelry - If Selling it Online, How Should You Spell It? by Nici Bruckner
    
    Jewelry is one of the most misspelled words in the English language.... so how DO you spell it and how SHOULD you spell it if you are selling jewelry online? The source of the confusion, is like a diamond, multi faceted.
    
    
24. Definitions in Technical Writing Considered by Lance Winslow
    
    If you are a technical writer, not everyone that reads your technical research paper, reports, or operations manuals is going to understand all the lingo of the industry, or the current buzzwords. Therefore, it makes sense to put Definitions in the technical writing, and this opens up another question; where do you put these definitions? In some research calls for papers, they ask for the Definitions upfront, either after the table of contents, or immediately following the introduction.
    
    
25. Bar Graphs in Technical Writing Considered by Lance Winslow
    
    If you are writing technical papers, or you are writing a research report to convince people of something, perhaps politically motivated, then you are going to want to use bar graphs. These work exceptionally well when you're trying to compare things, and it is very easy to put a few figures in a paragraph and then refer to the bar draft off to the side, or below, which better illustrates and helps the reader visualize the data. The two most common types of charts or graphs, and the ones that are most easily understood happen to be bar graphs, ...
    
    
26. 3D Pie Chart Usage in Technical Writing Discussed by Lance Winslow
    
    Whenever you are doing technical writing it pays to help the reader visualize the data that you are putting forth. Often, it makes sense to make comparisons when visualizing data and this is where the pie chart comes in. Pie Charts just happened to be one of the favored illustrations, figures, charts, or graphs by scientific readers, as well as average readers.
    
    
27. Flow Charts Look Best in 3D and in Color For Technical Papers, Reports and Writings by Lance Winslow
    
    When writing technical papers, manuals, e-books, or research papers we often try to explain procedures, processes, and the proper way to make decisions based on that data or the task at hand. In explaining these processes it makes sense to use flowcharts, something that is very popular with academia, and business management gurus. If you pick up any college business textbook and page through it quickly you will see lots of flowcharts, often in Color which use different shapes to signify each step of the process along the way.
    
    
28. The Whizzy Wig of Technical Writing - Thoughts on WYSIWYG by Lance Winslow
    
    Believe it or not many technical writers start out using a yellow legal pad, and they make paragraph after paragraph leaving spaces in between as they work. This is how they used to do it before widespread use of word processors. It turns out this method works very well.
    
    
29. Beware of Using Hyperlinks in Online Technical Writing, Research, and Reports by Lance Winslow
    
    Doing technical writing online and producing papers, research reports, and even e-books has become easier over the years. Also, we now have the ability to put hyperlinks right inside the technical writing itself. It's very easy to send someone to a hyperlink, which goes to another website in lieu of the citation.
    
    
30. Technical Writers - A Must For Every Software Company by Prashant T Verma
    
    There has been a lot of speculation about the importance of the technical writers in the industry. However no matter how good software is, without a well documented help support it would fail to hit the right chord amongst the clients.
    
    

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