The Pocket Technical Writing List 🗂

A small but formidable list of technical writing resources for software developers.

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Courses and Other Resources 👨🏾‍💻

• Write the Docs
  • WtD Learning Resources
  • WtD Slack Community
• Google's Technical Writing Courses
• UC San Diego's Technical Communication I Course
• Society for Technical Communication Online Technical Writing Courses
• Ritza's free Writing for Coders Intensive
• Sample Technical Writing Template by Bolaji Ayodeji
• RunDOC, a library for generate docs by Richard Schneeman
• How to Document APIs Guide

Articles 📰

• A Brief Introduction to Technical Writing
• 7 Pieces of Information to Include in Technical Blog Posts
• 4 ways to keep distractions out of screenshots

Books 📕

• How to Make Sense of Any Mess by Abby Covert
• The Product is Docs by Christopher Gales and the Splunk Docs team
• Information Architecture for the Web and Beyond by Louis Rosenfeld et. al.
• Technical Communication Today by Richard Johnson-Sheehan
• Technical Communication, 13th Edition by Mike Markel et. al
• Technical Editing, 5th Edition by Carolyn D. Rude and Angela Eaton

Documentation Style Guides 📝

• README Checklist by Daniel Beck
• MDN Web Docs Style Guide
• Splunk Style Guide
• Divio's documentation system
• Microsoft's Writing Style Guide
• Google's Developer Documentation Style Guide
• DigitalOcean's Technical Writing Guidelines
• GitLab's Documentation Style Guide
• Checklist for Technical Writing (PDF)

Paid Writing Opportunities😎

• Tech Community Writing Programs compiled by Daniel Madalitso Phiri

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