Nonfiction · Craft of Writing
Ew! How to Fix Terrible Technical Writing
A practical, good-humored guide to writing people can follow
Nonfiction · Craft of Writing
A practical, good-humored guide to writing people can follow
Ew! How to Fix Terrible Technical Writing is the one book on this shelf that isn't poetry, and it comes straight from David Baldwin's day job. Over more than three decades he wrote and edited for Boeing, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Amazon, and the Walt Disney Company, retiring as a senior technical writer in Disney's global technology division.
This guide distills that experience into practical, good-humored advice for anyone who has ever winced at a manual, a spec, or an email. It is about the same thing his poetry is about, in the end: precision, clarity, and respect for the reader.
The discipline of the technical writer, the trained eye for detail, is exactly what Baldwin brought to poetry. You can see it at work in every line of Wheel of Water.
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Ew! gathers the highlights. The complete Grammaticus guide (one page per topic, from acronyms to wordiness) is free to read, with a free eBook to download, at saxogrammaticus.com.
The precision Baldwin teaches here is the same attention to detail that shapes his poetry, nowhere more fully than in his newest collection, Wheel of Water.