TIP: Technical writing involves creating content used in technical and occupational fields such as software, engineering, biotechnology, etc. Learn more on Wikipedia.
- Community
- Courses
- Books
- Style Guides
- Useful Tools
- Resources
- Videos
- Podcasts
- Conferences
- Speaker Decks
- Technical Writers to Follow
- Hashnode
- r/technicalwriting
- Google's Season of Docs
- freeCodeCamp News
- ycombinator News
- DEV
- Hackernoon
- Write the Docs
- The Good Docs Project
- LinkedIn Technical Writing Community
- Society for Technical Communication
- The Manuscript Academy
- Google Technical Writing Courses
- Tech Writing for Accessibility
- Writing Helpful Error Messages
- Technical Writing: Documentation on Software Projects
- Coding for Writers: Basic Programming
- Class Central Technical Writing
- Professional Technical Writing: Advance Your Writing Skills
- Technical Writing: Master Your Writing Career
- English 305: Advanced Technical Writing
- Technical Communication Techniques and Principles for Project Managers
- Documenting APIs: A Guide for Technical Writers
- Technical Writing Certification Course
- Tech: Write & Earn
- Docs for Developers: An Engineer’s Field Guide to Technical Writing by Jared Bhatti et al.
- The Developer's Guide to Content Creation by Stephanie Morillo.
- The Developer's Guide to Creating a Successful Blog by Flavio Copes.
- Everybody Writes: Your New and Improved Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content by Ann Handley.
- Technical Writing for Dummies by Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts.
- The Handbook of Technical Writing by Gerald J. Alre et al.
- How To Write Usable User Documentation by Edmond H. Weiss.
- Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works by Janice Redish.
- Docs Like Code: Collaborate and Automate to Improve Technical Documentation by Anne Gentle.
- The Product is Docs: Writing Technical Documentation in a Product Development Group by Christopher Gales et al.
- Every Page Is Page One: Topic-Based Writing for Technical Communication and the Web by Mark Baker.
- Modern Technical Writing: An Introduction to Software by Andrew Etter.
- Software Technical Writing: A Guidebook by James Gallagher.
- Microsoft Manual of Style
- IBM Editorial Style Guide
- The Red Hat Style Guide
- Google Developer Documentation Style Guide
- Chicago Manual of Style
- University of Oxford Style Guide
- Technical Writing Template - Sample template with guidelines for writing technical articles.
- Paid Community Writer Programs - List of companies offering paid developer community writer programs.
- Who Pays Technical Writers? - Curated collection of publishers paying fair rates for high-quality technical content.
- Diátaxis Documentation System - Systematic approach to creating better documentation.
- HackMD - Real-time collaboration on technical documentation in markdown.
- Dropbox Paper - Flexible workspace for collaborative document-editing.
- Google Docs - Smart editing and styling tools for formatting text and paragraphs.
- Notion - All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
- Notion AI - Leverage AI to write faster and augment creativity.
- Grammarly - Writing assistant offering comprehensive writing feedback.
- Canva - Graphic design platform for creating visual content.
- TinyPNG - Smart PNG and JPEG image compression.
- Full Page Screen Capture - Simplest way to take a full-page screenshot of your browser window.
- Awesome Screenshot: Screen Video Recorder - Screen capture full-page screenshot and recorder for screencast.
- Readme Markdown Generator - CLI that generates beautiful https://raw.githubusercontent.com/blinkwilly/awesome-technical-writing/main/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/awesome-technical-writing-v1.4.zip files.
- Capture to a Gif - Record browser content to an animated gif.
- Microsoft Word - Spelling, grammar, and intelligent suggestions across documents, email, and the web.
- Log4brains - Docs-as-code knowledge base to manage Architecture Decision Records (ADR) and publish them as a static website.
- Antidote - Text corrector that analyzes and flags any detections.
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/blinkwilly/awesome-technical-writing/main/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/awesome-technical-writing-v1.4.zip - AI writing assistant that helps produce original content faster.
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/blinkwilly/awesome-technical-writing/main/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/awesome-technical-writing-v1.4.zip - AI writer designed for writing, not for SEO.
- Scribehow - AI writer that generates how-to guides on the go.
- Gravit Designer - Vector design app.
- Framer - UI/UX design and prototyping tool.
- ClickUp - AI writing assistant, task management, docs, and goals.
- Mailchimp - Email marketing tool for growing businesses.
- Ghost - Blogging platform for creators.
- Google Developer Documentation Style Guide
- Technical Writing Process - Book and resources by Kieran Morgan.
- Technical Writing One - PDF manual for improving technical writing skills.
- Developing Quality Technical Information - Book by Michelle Carey et al.
- Write the Docs - Community of people interested in documentation.
- The Good Docs Project - Open source project for creating good documentation templates.
- Lighthouse - Google’s open-source tool to improve web page quality.
- Google’s Technical Writing Course - Free video series on technical writing by Google.
- Technical Writing Workshop - Workshop by Technical Writing for Developers.
- How to Write Better Technical Documentation - YouTube video by the Technical Writing Channel.
- Getting Started in Tech Writing - Overview by Google Season of Docs.
- Write the Docs
- Google Season of Docs
- STC’s Technical Communication Summit
- OpenAPI Initiative
- MadWorld Conference
- Confab
- Nordic Techkomm