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OVERVIEW

You, a non-writer, have just been assigned to write the documentation for a product your company produces or markets. You may be stressed out about the assignment. Fear not! This article will get you started on the path to writing a successful document.

QUESTIONS AND NOTES

As soon as you get assigned to the documentation project you must begin to take notes and ask questions. The major goal of this early information gathering is to gain access to the sources of information that you will need in order to write your document. Thus these early notes should be related to where you will get your information: things to read and people to contact, and a product to play with.

TIP: There is always something to do or learn on a Documentation project. Don’t stop working while you are waiting for something else to happen.

LEARN PROPER USE OF YOUR WRITING TOOLS

Do NOT get immersed in new technology. For most companies and for most documentation projects, investing the money and time to learn a Content Management System or exquisite document writing software are not worth the effort. Documentation writing is often the tail end of a project, and you will have no time to learn new technologies. Instead learn to get the best from your existing word-processing tools.

* Learn about and understand why you should use your word processor’s “styles” for formatting your document. “Styles” (or whatever your word processor calls them) are sets of characteristics such as a structure and formatting. For example, Heading (level) 1 is a style, Heading 2 is another style, and so are Title, Body Text and others. When you apply a style to a block of text, two things happen: (1) the formatting of the style gets applied to the text and (2) the word processor will be able to understand the structure of the document. The word processor’s tools will use the headings to automatically generate a table of contents.

* Learn to use your word processor’s outlining capability. The outliner automatically assigns styles to the headings in your document. Design your User Document using your word processor’s outlining capability.

* Learn how to use your word processor’s revision system. The revision system is a facility where the author writes a document and then sends it to a reviewer. The reviewer can make revisions to the document, and sends it back to the author. The author can then choose to either accept or reject each revision provided by the reviewer. You will have to be able to deal with revisions from multiple reviewers for each part of the Document.

Most word processor Users do not know how to use the revision system that their software provides. You might wish to create a document about the revision system for your reviewers. Remember to tell them what the revision system is about, as well as how to use it.

Technology comes second. Our goal will be to produce a great document, providing the:

* content (the information that your Reader needs or wants) and

* effective access to that content

(giving your reader the ability to find what is needed).

DOCUMENT ALL PEOPLE ON THE PROJECT

Pretend that it is 10 years from now. You or someone else must re-write the User Documentation for the product you are now working on. You or someone else must be able to contact those who worked on the original project or the people who replaced them. You may need to ask them questions, or at least to find the notes and other background material related to the document that they produced. You must keep a record of everyone who worked on the project (for the product itself and for the User Documentation.)

The people who are working on the project include (there may be others, include them in the list):

* Project Manager

* Those who will approve the parts of the Document, and who will approve the final Document

* Project Team

* Contacts

* Marketing

* Sources of Information

* Publisher of Document

* Editor

* Indexer

You should keep (for yourself and the entire project team) the following information. It should have an entry for every person inside and outside the organization who is affiliated with the project, and these data:

* Full Name

* Role in the Product Development

* Organization and Position in the Organization

* E-mail address

* Telephone contact (FAX number)

* Office address (if there is a company-wide directory, get the address from there, when you need it)

* Their expertise and what they did on the project

* Any other relevant information

DO IT NOW: LIST THE PLAYERS

Create this list of everyone related to the project. You can keep the list using a word processor, spreadsheet, or dedicated address-book software and in your e-mail program. Use whatever method you are used to using (a computer program is best, as it permits you to edit the list, and to share it with the other members of your project team).

Include the information I suggested above about each participant. The goal is to know who worked on the project, their role in the project, and how to contact them.

Keep the list up to date.

YOUR PATRON

Let’s call the person that assigns you the task of writing the document (or a portion of it) your “Patron”. This is the person who is responsible for ensuring that the documentation gets produced. There are several things you must ask of your Patron, and you must carefully note the responses.

Ultimately, your Patron must provide you with (or put you in contact with someone who can provide you with):

* Access to literature about the product

Includes marketing, design, concept information, documentation for similar products; in short, anything they will let you read that might be related to the product. Once you get the written documentation, read as much as you possibly can about the product. A goal is to become the expert about the product.

* Access to the members of the project team.

Not only the names and contact information, but also provide the “clout” to get these people to provide information to you. This is vitally important!

This access must include the marketing and design teams. They can tell you about the potential Users of the product.

* Access to the product itself or a mockup of the product.

So you can gain some hands-on experience with the product.

Access to Users of similar products; access to potential Users of this product (or information about them)

If you have been hired by, for example, the Human Resources Department of the company, then Human Resources will have to direct you to the person on the project who is your Patron. Your Patron is not your client.

In the business world we speak of our “client.” That is usually the person or organization that hires and pays us. It’s the one we are working for.

However in reality your client is your Reader. It is your responsibility to do the best job for your Reader. If it’s necessary to go against the judgment of your Patron then you must be prepared to convince your Patron of the merits of your way of doing the work.

Read all the material you can get about the product and the project . It will prepare you for the interactions you will have later with the project members. Be prepared by knowing as much background information as you can before you have your first information gathering session (meeting).

Ask: “What can I read or do in order to get the background on this topic?”

Even if you are the developer, there are things you need to learn. One of the most important is concerns the characteristics your potential User.

Your early investigations should be aimed at answering these questions:

1. Overall (brief) Description of the Product.

What does the product do for the User;

How does the product change the way the User currently does things.

2. Intended Audience (the Users) for the Document and the Product

This is the “target market” for the product; information about who will use the product. This information could come from the marketing and design groups for the product. Ask them: “Tell me about your potential User of this product?”

3. Goals of the Document that You are Writing

This is the “scope” of the document…what is your document supposed to deal with regarding the product. See the next item on this list, item 4. Is your document to be a User Manual, Reference Manual, Setup Guide, or a combination of these?

4. Are there to be any other User Documents to be produced that are related to this product? That is, is the document you are working on a portion of the User Document set that the organization will produce for the product? If yes, what are the other documents in the set (so you can refer to them in your document)?

5. The contact information that I discussed just above. For every question you might have, you must have a source (be that source written or verbal) for an answer.

The items on the above list would probably be answered by “higher level” members of the project team. Perhaps your Patron can answer them; if not, he/she must guide you to where (or from whom) you can get the answers. These are the first things you will write about in your User Documentation. Get this information early in the project.

In short, you need to get both written documentation about the product and contacts who you can ask to provide more information.

Eventually you will enter this information in a word processing document that you can share.

Document all of this information.

ASK ABOUT MECHANICS

Very early in the documentation project you should ask your initial contact about these writing-mechanics topics:

* What is the time frame for producing the documentation. When do you have to have the writing finished so that it can be edited and published.

* What are the Company’s (your company, group, division) Documentation Guidelines and Standards

Look over some acceptable documentation produced by the Company

* What are the Legal Guidelines for the documentation

You will need this for disclaimers, safety information, and the copyright notice

* How the document and components of it are to be approved by those responsible for the product and its documentation.

Ensure that you know when and how the components or stages of the document are to be approved. Know who is to approve your writing. Stay in close contact with those people.

* What writing and outlining software does the Company use

Your software should be compatible with that of the Company

* Get a Style Manual

A style manual is a guide for selecting phrases. It sets down writing customs for your industry or Company. For example, the style guide for the indexing community says that the plural of “index” is “indexes,” not “indices.” A mathematical style manual would select “indices” as the plural of “index.”

If your company has adopted a style manual, use that one, if appropriate to the product. If not, search an on-line bookstore for “Style Manual” or “Style Guide” and your industry, such as “Style Manual Mathematics”.

* What are you to deliver on this project?

* How will the document be published

Printed, on-line, Adobe Acrobat PDF, context-sensitive help, XML (so it can easily be manifested in any display medium)

Keep track of all this information. You will organize it and add to it as you this documentation project moves forward.

GIVE SOME INFORMATION

You should give everyone your contact information so they can get in touch with you. You might consider using your business card, and writing on it that you are writing the User Document for whatever product. Make it easy for your contacts to get in touch with you. Ensure that you have your contact information in any e-mails or copies of the document that you send to others.

You should also tell your Patron how you plan to write the documentation. You will be writing the document in pieces (which are logical topics or modules), and provide the pieces to members of the product team for review.

Also (unless you are a professional writer, in which case you may do most of the editing yourself) make it known that you plan to use someone else to edit your document. Interim materials that you provide might not be edited; you are providing them in order for reviewers (”experts” within the project team or marketing) to evaluate them on completeness and accuracy. You will ensure clarity of the writing in the (later) cycles of editing and revision.

One of my (ideal) goals for you is that you become the focus of all the User-oriented information about the product. You become the resource that others on the project turn to for information.

I believe that you should provide information to those involved (and especially those to be involved at a later stage in the project, such as the indexer) as early as possible in the life of the project. There are several benefits to this:

* They will learn about and think about the product and project. This will happen because people do want to do a good job… after all, it’s their livelihood.

* There will be fewer surprises. People know what is happening with the project, how their roles and timing might change. Encourage your Readers to comment back to you about anything related to your work.

Learn, learn, learn! Become the expert about the product and its documentation.

SET UP AN INFORMATION SHARING RESOURCE

I believe in sharing information…it makes for a better work environment and a better product. Use whatever available technology you have to create (or get created) some kind of resource to share information. This information will be in the form of computer files…nothing magic.

You may be able to use a shared directory on a local network, or a protected area on your company’s intranet. Investigate what is needed. Provide read and write access to all the people (inside the company) who are involved on the project.

One of the first things to post is the list of people on the project. Make sure that whatever you post, it is in a form that everyone who has access to it can read (and possibly write) it.

NEXT STEPS

Other articles in this “New Technical Writer” series will assist you as you progress through the writing project. Look for them in the links in the “Resources” section.

Freelance writing offers the opportunity to make money from home and gives a writer a chance to work on an almost endless variety of projects. A writer can either focus on an area of expertise, or write a greater variety of general knowledge articles. With the internet, there are many more freelance opportunities today than ever before, and the field is expanding daily.

Where to find Freelance Writing Jobs:

While magazines and newspapers are the more traditional route for freelance writers, the internet has provided a whole new arena for writers. There are internet magazines (sometimes called e-zines) and blogs (short for weblogs) on almost any topic available. While many do not pay writers, some are beginning to. Content sites are another source of writing jobs.

There are also freelance websites specifically designed to help bring together clients and writers. The writers can bid on jobs, and then the client will chose the writer who best suits their needs, both in talent and price. Some of the jobs will be creating new content, while others want people to rewrite existing articles, to make them fresh. Most of these bidding sites do charge fees of some sort. Some of the charge the client to post the job, while others charge the writers either to join, or a percentage of the total payment agreed upon for the job. The benefit of going through one of the sites where you bid on jobs, is that the money is held in escrow, so that writer is guaranteed payment upon successful completion of the project. The writer has to balance the convenience of someone helping find them work versus the expense of promoting themselves to potential clients.

Skills you need:

In addition to basic typing skills, you should have a creative streak that allows you to present information in a new, informative and entertaining way. You should have good grammar and spelling skills, as most of the freelance jobs require the product to be delivered with minimal errors. While experience is good, it is fairly easy to begin a freelance writing career by building gradually, possibly even writing a few articles for free to build a body of work to show potential clients as writing samples.

Tools you need:

As with most jobs that require typing, a reliable computer and internet connection is a must. You should have a word processing program that allows you to save to a variety of formats, as clients have different needs.

How much money can you make?

The payment for content articles can be anywhere from $3-20. Other projects pay by the word or by the page. The price varies greatly, based on the market in which you are sending your work. A traditional magazine will often pay more per article than an online content site.

Word Processing Jobs

Word processing jobs are a good source of income from home. Sometimes they are listed together with data entry jobs. Doing word processing would include a wide variety of tasks, from typing up newsletters to helping organize a research project. Some jobs might require transcribing a manuscript from a handwritten copy to a computer file, possibly even for use as an e-book.

Where to find Word Processing Jobs:

There are many job search sites that specialize in word processing jobs. Local colleges and universities are also a source of typing jobs, for busy students who don’t have the time to type out their papers.

Skills you need:

Good typing skills are a must. Many employers require anywhere from 60 - 70 wpm, or better. Accuracy is also crucial. You should be very familiar with programs like MS Word and Excel. There are sites that promise job training to improve your word processing skills, but good typing skills should be enough for most jobs. Many promise jobs with high pay, approach these with caution and do your research first. It would also be advisable to be familiar with PDF (Portable Document Format) file format, Adobe and how to create and edit pdf’s.

Tools you need:

A dependable computer is a must, and possibly a printer, in case you are required to turn in a hard copy of the documents being typed. A solid internet connection and software including Word, Publisher and Excel.

How much money can you make?

Some companies promise from $1000 – $4000 a week, but this is likely a sign of a scam or ‘typing for pay’ programs that you should avoid. Others offer $250+ per week or a per page wage. These are more likely to be real job offers. Many times freelance typists bid on work and the lowest bidder with the skills required gets the job. That can be a good place to start and gain experience but you’re not likely to make a very good wage that way.

Search engine submission tools make it easy for webmasters to submit their website URLs to search engines. Most webmasters would have one or two of these search engine submission tools in their arsenal for website promotion. Without them, search engine submission does not reach its full potential as a traffic generation technique. This article would explain why search engine submission is critical to a website’s success and why search engine submission tools are must-have tools in every webmaster’s toolkit.

What is search engine submission? Webmasters since the start of the internet age saw the importance of search engines as a free source of traffic. Having your website listed, ie indexed in major search engines is like listing your home in the street directory so that people may find you. People only hear of the big names such as Google, Yahoo and MSN, but they do not know that even these big search engines are actually networks of smaller search engines, in the tune of thousands of them.

Though approximately 80% of search engine traffic comes from the 3 major search engines, the smaller search engines still account for a sizeable 20%. Do not belittle how much traffic they can bring to your website. Therefore, it is important to submit to these smaller search engines. Unfortunately, manual submission without the aid of search engine submission tools can be taxing in time and energies. Most webmasters would rather work on building content and more websites than to do data-entry.

As I have mentioned, submitting to thousands of search engines manually is tedious. Time is of essence to successful webmasters. People have resorted to free search engine submission tools or online services. Sad to say, a lot of these free services or tools are buggy and your submission is either incomplete or under wrong categories. In both cases, your submissions are rejected – a complete waste of time and effort. It can be costly to submit to each major search engine such as Yahoo, for inclusion. There are online paid search engine submission services but tread carefully as many of them don’t deliver decent submission results. Those which do provide excellent search engine submission services can be pretty costly for a new webmaster.

There is another alternative for search engine submission that is, using search engine submission tools such as search engine submission software. These tools are capable of either submitting semi-automatically or automatically to a preloaded list of search engines. Submission is systematic and saves a great deal of time. These search engine submission tools are relatively cheap when we measure it in terms of the time savings you get, freeing you to focus on building your business or engaging in other website promotion activities. Such tools normally carries a one-time price tag so most newbie webmasters can also afford them. Read more at my blog about several affordable search engine submission tools that you can use to drive instant traffic.

This article may be freely reprinted or distributed in its entirety in any ezine, newsletter, blog or website. The author’s name, bio and website links must remain intact and be included with every reproduction.

Most all ezine publishers need fresh content. Article writing
is something that gets tedious to the publisher who sends out an
ezine every week. Fresh, unique ideas are always attractive, and
ezine authors don’t mind publishing others work, (along with a
complete research box, (THIS IS YOUR AD) as well.

If you can learn and excel with this kind of content writing,
you can win in two areas. Promoting your own site, or writing
content for others site owners and earning dollars as a
ghostwriter.

I have been writing and promoting on the web for over 3 years.
Here are the tips I find most important to a beginning –article
for promoting– writer.

Articles should be short enough to read in less than 5 minutes.
Ideally they should be between 300 and 600 words (an average
page in a printed novel is about 300 words). Top 10, or 7, (the
number isn’t that important) Tips on (your subject) are great
attention grabbers for articles to promote your website.

Write in short paragraphs, forget what you learned about in
English class, if a paragraph is long, find a good point where
you can cut it and put an extra line break. Browsing for
content, readers are more likely to stick with reading something
the eye can easily skim from top to end. (Notice with this
article, I have added spaces between each bullet in this list :o)

If your article is long, break it into 2 or 3 parts. For a real
web traffic puller, and list building technique, request them to
sign up for an autoresponder version to receive 2nd or 3rd part.
(be sure to give them opt-out options when you do it this way)

Here is a mistake I see many online authors’ making. Don’t use
huge big vocabulary. You are not writing a thesis, or essay for
school. Write so that someone with a 8th grade education could
easily read it. Don’t try to impress with large vocabulary
words, you will lose readers, who feel your writing is
condesending to them. (See, how many do you think I may have
lost using condesending?

Try to write with passion. Put feeling into your words. Pull in
as many of the five senses, experience stories, as you can. For
an example of this, read this article. Articles should educate,
entertain or inform. Imagine how popular your article will be if
it does all three.

Make sure your article is well formatted. You can post it at a
site like ezinearticles.com and use their (”get this article
page” to get your article in different formats, both text and
html.) This sites also allow you to input your own personalized
summary, and keywords, which allows webmasters to find them and
use them as well.

Set a goal to publish a certain number of articles per week to a
certain number of database sites.

It is easy to find sites to submit your articles too. Just go to
google, type in articles, then, scroll to the bottom of the
page. You will find a button which says, search within results.

With this search button type in “free articles” or “free
content” or “free to republish” and you will find several
submission sites. You can also type “article submission
directories”

I have set a goal to do five things each day toward promotion.
Each persons goals will be different, but remember, to be
effective you must write new content and promote on a consistent
basis.

However, if you have a good article, it will also duplicate
itself quickly and spread across the web like a forest fire out
of control!

You can optimize your article to get the exact keyword density
for search engines, but that could fill another whole article.
For your main keyword, try to use it about 7-10 times throughout
the whole page. This article’s goal is to find article
writer-promoter, webmasters to list their articles at my new
article database.

Receive news about this site when it goes live by sending an
email to this link: articledatabase@lauriemeade.co

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