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: What are the license/legal requirements to write a guidebook about a specific product? As the title says. I'm writing guide and reference books (Amazon short-reads) aimed at people who aren't
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: When is it appropriate to include citations in a guidebook? I'm working on a series of self-published guidebooks aimed at teaching tech skills for people who aren't tech literate. My only prior
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: Is it confusing for the reader to encounter in a novel the same language written with two different letters? Tamazight language as an example I'm writing a fictional novel in English and I
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: Writing about the historical relationship between math and physics I'm not sure if this is best suited for Writing SE, or perhaps one of the science SE's. In any case, feel free to move this
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: How should I structure a small non-fiction book/paper about a groundbreaking product/invention? I want to write a book/paper about an invention I have thought and developed conceptually. But I'm
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: See examples 1 and 2 in section X - or - See section X, examples 1 and 2 Which form is more common when referring to examples (or, for example, tables)? Some text (see examples 1a and 2e
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: Is it correct to write: "Your payment's being processed"? Is it correct to write: "Your payment's being processed" ?
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: When vs. If vs. In situation where An excerpt from Microsoft Writing Style Guide, which I'm trying to follow: Use if to express a condition, use whether to express uncertainty, and use when
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: How do you write a story with someone else overseas? My friend and I have wanted to write a story together for a while now. But she lives in a different country, so we are just confused
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: Referencing figures, tables, sections and chapters: When to capitalize and when to use lower case letters I know this question has been asked before, but I am still confused. That’s why I
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: Engineer who wants to improve their writing from scratch To expand on the title, I am about to finish my engineering degree. However, I haven't really written an essay for the past ten years.
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: How to write useful and respectful comments and remarks on academic thesis, papers and other proof-read stuff to motivate and valuable author's work? You are probably familiar with this situation:
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: Section headings: "to check..." vs. "checking" I have a technical document which consists of the following sections: 1. Assignment statements 2. Concatenation 3. Data types 4. To check whether key
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: How to list main ideas in a conclusion chapter without being repetitive with the wording? In the conclusions chapter of my book (technical, non fiction writing) I want to go over the main ideas
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: ShareLaTeX or OverLeaf templates to write a book to be self-published on Amazon I'm planning to write a book and eventually self-publish it online through amazon (I haven't decided which platform
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: Zero-that clause (noun clause with that) After omitting "that" from a that-clause, is the clause still dependent? Or, does doing this turn it into an independent clause? For example: Before:
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: Methodologies to organise writing/copy/editing tasks This question is all about methodologies to handle the workload efficiently for a freelance who deals with copy/editing of documents/articles. In
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: How do I avoid using punctuation inside quotation marks in technical writing? As a computer programmer, I comment my code. For example: The following lines are dependent on "source 1" and
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: What software do they use to create textbooks or board game manuals? I'm wondering if there is some free software in which I could quite easily compose a book with a lot of images, something
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: Mentioning verbatim sentence of another research Is it possible to use a verbatim sentence of another research in our own studies? I, as an undergraduate psychology student who doesn't have
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: Book recommendation for keeping writing specific / concrete My job requires formal writing, however after self-review, I found that my writing does not have enough substance. This was confirmed
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: How do you quote a quote? There's this sentence from Marie Kondo’s book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing that I want to use as a title
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: Past or present tense when describing a well-known method in the description of an experiment? I am describing an experiment for a scientific paper. In this experiment, I use a very well-known
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: Is "and" or "or" better in this sentence? When I was writing a manual, I wrote a sentence like example no.1 below. Is it natural to use an "or" like the bolded ones in the sentence? Or
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: How do you transcribe a person's tone (i.e. someone whose speech is rude and/or attacking)? I've been having great difficulty with transcribing an individuals "tone" in my meeting notes!! For
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: When to write (see Section ...) or simply (Section ...)? I am writing a technical paper and would like to refer to a previous section in brackets. I have seen it done both ways: Things are
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: Constructing a standardized form for a collection of technical manuals I've been reading several articles about the use of voice within technical writing (both passive and active) and would like
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: Can MS Word perform single-source help authoring? My company is using Microsoft Word to manage thousands of documents that ultimately end up publishing only to a couple outputs: primarily PDF
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: Software or Softwares It seems to me that softwares is incorrect. I am of the opinion that software is partitive. I try to use some software or piece of software. Do you think it is incorrect
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: What is UX writing? What is UX writing? I am a writer and a UX designer by trade. I hear a lot about UX writing being the next big thing. Should I specialize in this area?
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: Can you legally write a book based on technical concepts that someone else’s coined? Is there any issues with writing a book and publishing it that is based on topics and concepts that the
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: What to do when API objects and UI names are different? This question is in reference to API documentation. Say the name of an object is "Action" in the backend, but "Step" in the UI. We
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: How to reference Other Sections in a document I am writing a procedure and want to reference other sections in the same procedure. What is the correct way to call them out? Example: The
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: Will I use "the" in that instance or leave it with no article? If I'm given a choice, to put "the" or leave the word with no article, what's the better answer? The world helps in boosting
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: Explicit scientific syntax for academic writing (like a programming language but for scientific reports and publishing)? This is a project I am thinking of working on in the future. Is anyone
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: Referring to machines and sensors as "knowing" I'm editing a technical text about autonomous systems. I feel the following sentence is anthropomorphizing a machine and also introduces some confusion
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: Add Comma After "official" in "official third-party documentation"? I'm drafting an internal standard on internal documentation covering third-party products or services in my organization. Documentation
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: What's a good replacement for the phrase "best practice"? In technical writing the phrase "best practice" is often used to suggest that something is more accurate than other things. However, that's
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: In academic writing why do some recommend to avoid "announcing" the topic? In academic writing, several articles on the topic of writing papers denounce the practice of "announcing" the topic.
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: Subfigures in a figure, how to label? So if I later refer to figure 2 (i) or figure 2 (ii) would it be better for the figure to be labelled as is Figure 2: Figure (i) shows cycle C?
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