Technical Writing Services

Our technical writing services represent the most due-diligent, professional documentation available.  The range of our services spans user manuals to case studies to e-learning.   Our presentations are audience-focused and attractive.  They always include appropriate charts, tables and other explanatory graphics with the option for more advanced illustration.  Most importantly, what we create engages the audience and is easily understood.

Technical Writing Services

Our technical writing services include a broad cross-section of content in many industry sectors.  All content is well-researched and presented in engaging, unambiguous form so that it is easily understood.  We believe that easily understood work is also easily absorbed.  Einstein’s view of simplicity is the basis for our presentations:  They are as simple as is possible but no simpler.  This method reaches the widest range of readers in your target market.

Simplified Technical English

Translation, however, is not the only consideration here because non-native speakers as an audience is not the only issue.  Documentation in simplified English must also bridge the chasm between native speakers who speak English (or any language) well and those who do not.   This is especially true for training documentation where everyone from upper management to supervisors to workers must be on the same page.  Standard operating procedures, likewise, must be clearly understood by everyone affected by them. 

As every business must look for roadblocks that would disrupt their operation, they must also be aware of roadblocks that disrupt communication.  Concerns about reducing documentation content to its lowest level of understanding must be replaced by the intent to make information available to the widest possible audience.  Simplified Technical English and Plain Language can do just that. 

STE was developed to help the readers of English-language documentation understand what they read, particularly when these readers are non-native English speakers – ASD-STE100

For highly technical documents, Simplified Technical English may be more appropriate than Plain Language.  The controlled language with its technical dictionaries may better transform these texts into clear, unambiguous documentation.  Also, there are times when it is important for all readers to understand the content in English.  Once in English, it can be translated into other languages.

ASD-STE100, also known as Simplified Technical English (STE), is a specification for writing technical documentation in a simplified language that is easy to understand for a global audience.  This can help improve safety, reduce errors, and increase efficiency in various industries where technical documentation plays a critical role.  -Simplifying the Complex: ASD-STE100 (Simplified Technical English)

 

The Great Knowledge Transfer and STE

A group of engineers were set to update a Code written in the last century.  But this would be no easy task because they had no real interest in enabling a wide range of people to crack the Code.  Even the promise of protecting the technical integrity of the Code was not appealing.  But change was coming so they had to make the best of it.  Ultimately, with a few dissenters still unwilling to accept all of the changes, a consensus produced a clear, unambiguous Code.   Their story can be downloaded below.

 

Leveraging STE:  A Technical Writing Case Study

A group of engineers were set to update a Code written in the last century.  But this would be no easy task because they had no real interest in enabling a wide range of people to crack the Code.  Even the promise of protecting the technical integrity of the Code was not appealing.  But change was coming so they had to make the best of it.  Ultimately, with a few dissenters still unwilling to accept all of the changes, a consensus produced a clear, unambiguous Code.   Their story can be downloaded below.