Add Technical Writing Learning

[wongyah]

Repo URL: https://github.com/wongyah/awesome-technical-writing-learning

Site URL: https://resources.docsimpo.work/

The list lists awesome and free resources about technical writing, ranging from courses and tutorials for beginners, popular authoring format (such as Markdown and DITA), to automatic processing technologies. I believe the list will be extremely useful for technical writers and engineers who need to write technical contents.

My comments for the pull requests to be reviewed:

• Add Transgender #2949: my first comment
• Add Neocities #2966: my second comment

I also opened a pull request: Improve the list guidelines and pull request guidelines (pull request template) #2984

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Please read it multiple times. I spent a lot of time on these guidelines and most people miss a lot.

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[wongyah]

unicorn

[wongyah]

I run the awesome-lint before open this pull request, and found 5 kinds of false-positive errors. I have created an issue in the awesome-lint repository:

False-positive errors: invalid URL, awesome-git-repo-age, no-defined-references, no-repeat-punctuation, invalid git repository. #191

[batrdn]

I think the awesome-git-repo-age is failing because your README.md is created a week ago. As to the other failures related to Found reference to undefined definition, it's quite difficult to pinpoint where exactly they're coming from.

[slevithan]

Thanks for your list. Technical writing is a subject I'm curious to learn more about.

Leaving aside the lint errors, there are a lot of minor issues with language. Numerous improvements could be made for clarity, brevity, and to use more idiomatic/natural English.

Here are just a few examples from the top, with suggestions:

• Replace "Technical writing is an essential skill of" with "Technical writing is the essential skill of" (an→the).
  • Consider replacing "is the essential skill of" with "is about", "focuses on", or similar.
• Replace "unaccessible" with "inaccessible" (all instances).
• Replace "it is listed as a sublist item of the unaccessible one followed by a mark of Country Name in a pair of parentheses" with "it is listed as a subitem followed by the country name in parentheses".
  • Currently, there is only one case in the list where you actually do this, so consider removing the tip entirely and just addressing this inline. E.g., instead of "(China)" use something like "(accessible in China)".
• In the ToC, replace "Text automatic processing" with "Text processing", and "Regular expression" with "Regular expressions".
• Replace "are the best start points" with "are the best starting points".
• Replace "Now, you have known a bit of technical writing 👏!" with "Now you know a bit about technical writing! 👏".
• This is verbose and subjective: "To learn a new skill or a new subject systematically, there is nothing better than 📚 academic textbooks and tutorials self-published by experienced professionals at work. Here you are, enjoy 😄!"
  • Consider something like: "Textbooks and tutorials by experienced professionals are great resources for systematically learning a new skill."
• Consider changing "A technical writer at a computer vision startup confessed his daily work in every detail" to something like "Detailed daily work routine by a technical writer at a computer vision startup".
• Instead of: "Tom Johnson, a senior technical writer at Google and the founder of the popular blog I'd Rather Be Writing, teach you how to write documentation for API step by step".
  • "teach you" → "teaches you".
  • Consider: "How to write API documentation step by step, by Tom Johnson, senior technical writer at Google and founder of the I'd Rather Be Writing blog".

...An so on.

I'd recommend doing another careful editing pass over all of the text, with a focus on being more concise (since this is a list rather than a blog post). That doesn't mean you need to drop your playful/friendly tone!

[wongyah]

@slevithan Thanks a million for your suggestions. I will read through all the text and try to simplify them.

But natural English is really hard for me. What native English speakers think natural may be hard to understand for me.

I converted your comment to a discussion in my repository.

[luhuadong]

It looks like your awesome list has some punctuation issues. For example, repeated "." symbols, repeated links. It is recommended that you check and fix them, or consider reorganizing the content.

[tyaga001]

Thanks for curating this great list...let me know if you need any help to add more stuff. amazing work.

I also do write technical guides.

[wongyah]

@tyaga001 Sure, appreciate for that. If you want to suggest a new resource or category, just send a pull request or start a discussion in the repository.

Thanks for your comment. You are always welcome!

Thanks for curating this great list...let me know if you need any help to add more stuff. amazing work.

I also do write technical guides.

[sindresorhus]

There are still some typos. I recommend passing it through ChatGPT to iron out the typos.

[wongyah]

@sindresorhus I have corrected those typos with a VS Code extension named Code Spell Checker, and passed it through a ChatGPT-like application of China. Thanks very much for your suggestion!

There are still some typos. I recommend passing it through ChatGPT to iron out the typos.