awesome-technical-writing

# Awesome Technical Writing ![](https://repository-images.githubusercontent.com/221308953/36034800-6311-11ea-8418-8a1a03c97d81) [![Awesome](https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg)](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome) [![Made in Nigeria](https://img.shields.io/badge/Made%20in-Nigeria-008751.svg?style=flat-square)](https://github.com/BolajiAyodeji/awesome-technical-writing) [![All Contributors](https://img.shields.io/badge/all_contributors-22-orange.svg?style=flat-square)](#contributors-) *This list is inspired by the [awesome](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome) and [awesome-jamstack](https://github.com/bolajiayodeji/awesome-jamstack) lists.*

[!TIP] Technical writing is the writing of technical content used in technical and occupational fields, such as computer hardware and software, engineering, chemistry, aeronautics, robotics, finance, medical, biotechnology, etc. ~ Wikipedia

Community
Courses
Books
Style Guides
Useful Tools
Resources
Videos
Podcasts
Conferences
Speaker Decks
Technical Writers to Follow

Community

Courses

Books

Docs for Developers: An Engineer’s Field Guide to Technical Writing by Jared Bhatti, Zach Corleissen, Jen Lambourne, David Nuñez, and Heidi Waterhouse.
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, Walter E. Oliu, and Charles T. Brusaw.
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 and Splunk Documentation Team.
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.

Style Guides

Useful Tools

Technical Writing Template - A sample template with guidelines for writing technical articles.
Paid Community Writer Programs - A list of companies that have paid developer community writer programs.
Who Pays Technical Writers? - A curated collection of active publishers, publications, and agencies that pay fair rates for high-quality technical content.
Diátaxis Documentation System - A systematic approach to creating better documentation.
HackMD - Real-time collaborate on technical documentation in markdown.
Dropbox Paper - A flexible workspace for collaborative document-editing.
Google Docs - Smart editing and styling tools to help you easily format text and paragraphs.
Notion - The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis and databases.
Notion AI - Leverage the limitless power of AI in any Notion page, write faster and augment your creativity.
Grammarly - a writing assistant that goes deeper than grammar to offer you comprehensive writing feedback.
Canva - A graphic design platform that allows you to create social media graphics, and other visual content.
TinyPNG - Smart PNG and JPEG image compression.
Full Page Screen Capture - The simplest way to take a full page screenshot of your current browser window.
Awesome Screenshot: Screen Video Recorder - Screen Capture full page screenshot and recorder for screencast.
Readme Markdown Generator - CLI that generates beautiful README.md files.
Capture to a Gif - Record content of pages to an animated gif picture from browser.
Microsoft Word - Spelling, grammar, and intelligent suggestions to assist you across documents, email, and on the web.
Log4brains - Docs-as-code knowledge base to manage Architecture Decision Records (ADR) for your project and publish them automatically as a static website.
Antidote - The corrector analyzes your text and flags any detections.
LanguageTool - Open-source writing assistant, an alternative to Grammarly.
HemingwayApp - Hemingway App makes your writing bold and clear. Helps fix long & complex sentences.
ChatGPT - A conversational chatbot that can generate human-like responses to natural language prompts.

Resources

Videos

Content Creation Strategies: How To Create Content Online
How to start a Coding YouTube channel (with tips from a bunch of successful creators!)
How To Start A Programming YouTube Channel With Coding Tutorials 360
15 Technical Writing Tips
[What is Technical Writing? Writing Genre Fundamentals](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SB4tfD0hxM)
Meet Technical Writers at Google
Technical Writing 101: Introduction to Technical Writing
What do Technical Writers do? (Also, what is Technical Writing?)
[How to become a Technical Writer Skills & Career Growth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l2KJXIBpB0)
Writing technical documentation
Write The Docs Podcast & Meetups
Write the Readable README
GitHub as a Landing Page
Lessons Learned From Rebuilding a Developer Documentation Website
A Balanced Diet of Documentation
Write your Docs like Nobody Reads Them
The Developer’s Guide to Technical Writing
How to write technical blog posts
Technical Writing Portfolio
How to Document APIs Using Postman

Podcasts

The Manuscript Podcast - The intersection of writing and the development of technology products.
The Manuscript Academy Podcast - Interviews with agents and editors, how-to tips, and behind-the-scenes looks at the creation of the Academy.
Write the Docs Podcast - The Write the Docs Podcast publishes discussion-style podcasts focusing on topics related to the Write the Docs community.
The Not-Boring Tech Writer - The Not-Boring Tech Writer podcast introduces technical writers skills used in the open data movement.

Conferences

Speaker Decks

## Some Technical Writers to follow

| Name | Link to Blog | Blog Niche | Link to Twitter | |-------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------| | Bolaji Ayodeji | https://blog.bolajiayodeji.com | Web/Data Engineering, JavaScript, Python, Machine Learning, and Ecommerce. | [@iambolajiayo](https://twitter.com/iambolajiayo) | | Angie Jones | https://angiejones.tech | Test Automation, and Java. | [@techgirl1908](https://twitter.com/techgirl1908) | | Sarah Drasner | https://sarah.dev/writing | Web Development, Vuejs, and SVGs. | [@sarah_edo](https://twitter.com/sarah_edo) | | Prosper Otemuyiwa | https://medium.com/@unicodeveloper | All things Technical and Magical. | [@unicodeveloper](https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper) | | Ire Aderinokun | https://bitsofco.de | Frontend Development and JavaScript. | [@ireaderinokun](https://twitter.com/ireaderinokun) | | Tom Johnson | https://idratherbewriting.com | Technical Writing and API lessons. | [@tomjohnson](https://twitter.com/tomjohnson) | | Anne Gentle | https://justwriteclick.com | Doc as Code. | [@annegentle](https://twitter.com/annegentle) | | Kayce Basques | https://kayce.basqu.es/blog | Dev tools and Documentation. | [@kaycebasques](https://twitter.com/kaycebasques) | | Tania Rascia | https://taniarascia.com | Modern JavaScript, Node.js, and development. | [@taniarascia](https://twitter.com/taniarascia) | | SWYX | https://swyx.io/writing | Web Development, React and Tech. | [@swyx](https://twitter.com/swyx) | | Sean C Davis | https://cobwwweb.com/ | Web Development and Jamstack. | [@seancdavis29](https://twitter.com/seancdavis29) | | Alvaro Montoro | https://dev.to/alvaromontoro | CSS and HTML. | [@alvaro_montoro](https://twitter.com/alvaro_montoro) | | Linda Ikechukwu | https://everythingtechnicalwriting.com | Technical Writing and Developer Documentation. | [@_mslinda](https://twitter.com/_MsLinda)| | Amruta Ranade | https://www.youtube.com/c/AmrutaRanade | Technical Writing and Developer Documentation. | [@AmrutaRanade](https://twitter.com/AmrutaRanade) |

Contributing

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Contributors ✨

_{Bolaji Ayodeji} 🖋 📖 🎨	_prachford 📖	_{Jude J Obiejesi} 📖	_{Patrick Rachford} 📖	_Didicodes 📖	_{browncrussell} 📖	_{Gareth Dwyer} 📖
_{Peter Thaleikis} 📖	_{Genesis Gabiola} 📖	_{Thomas Vaillant} 📖	_{Rostyslav Sipakov} 📖	_{Linda Ikechukwu} 📖	_Sojin 📖	_Ezefizzy 👀
_{Colin Sheppard} 🐛	_{Bhupesh Varshney} 📖	_DMoosh 📖	_{Boluwatife Victor} 📖	_neevcollege 📖	_{Marc Achtelig} 📖	_{Zion Ukpong} 📖
_James 📖