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I've also noticed that for some reason people get sloppy when writing posts about technical writing and forget to apply the principles of technical writing to that post. I avoid this bad habit by forcing myself to provide a summary for every post I create, e.g. https://kayce.basqu.es/blog/FAQs/


>I've also noticed that for some reason people get sloppy when writing posts about technical writing and forget to apply the principles of technical writing to that post.

Well, technically meta-posts about technical writing are not technical writing.


I define technical writing as written communication where your main goal is to transfer knowledge. By that definition this post is technical writing.




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