Mauricio Leventer Estimated reading time: 0:01 minutes
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IF you enjoy language and words
AND have a keen/sharp eye for details
AND easily smell grammatical errors and typos
AND like to learn and understand how things work
AND are able to work well with different types of people
AND are flexible. But if something has to change, you happily change it
AND like to teach people what you know and explain them how to do things
AND are able to keep track of many things at the same time (not multitasking)
AND are good at giving directions, knowing that people may not follow them sometimes
AND strive to enable your readers to use a new technology or understand concepts and processes
THEN you have excellent technical writing skills.
This aphoristic block of "code" uses a fragmentary language and intentionally resembles a computer program written with natural language. My goals → (1) teach you something about good technical writing skills; (2) prove that conducting experiments cannot just occour in the domain of fictional writers, it also occurs in the domain of delusional software developers.
