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New Technical Writer: Avoiding The Interview-writing Disconnect
OVERVIEW Lost or garbled information is a terrible waste. Especially if it's the information you gathered from an interview and must now write into your User Document. Here's how to prevent that waste. THE SITUATION You had an interview with a Subjec
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How Poor In-house User Documents Cost You Twice & What To Do About It
OVERVIEW Many organizations produce in-house tools or modify commercially-available tools for their own use. These tools should get documented so they are of use to others in the organization. If this documentation is not created or is poorly written,
Great Technical Writing: Sell Your Readers On What's Important
Overview Our humdrum, sterile headings and writing manner do little to encourage our Users to read parts of the product documentation that would be especially beneficial for them. This article presents two real-world examples, how they fail their users,
Tags: Writing, User, Documents, Manual, Instruction, Guide, Technical Writing, Writing
Great Technical Writing: Improve Document Searches
OVERVIEW Searches in User Documents (manuals, etc.) often fail because the Reader uses different words for a concept than the author uses. Since the Reader's words do not appear in the document, the document search mechanism cannot find them, resulting i
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Do Your Homework Before Signing Those Car Payments
Your grandmother probably told you “first things first”. Your teacher or first good boss probably advised you to do your homework thoroughly. Buying a car is much the same way. Do your homework first. Don't go searching for a car loan – even if your cred
Tags: Car, Auto, Purchase, Research, New, Used, Finance, Payments, Documents, Homework, Fleet, Title, Search, Online, Trucks-suvs
Follow The New Rules When Visiting Canada And Mexico
If you are in the United States and plan to visit Canada or Mexico, you need to follow the new rules.
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Business Web Directories Generate Good Business
It is tough to believe that businesses actually existed in the pre-Internet era. The net has so well straddled the world of business. Functions necessarily thrive on sponsorships in order to be successful, since operating costs can get quite significant.
Tags: Business Directory, Business Articles, Business Documents Templates, Web-hosting
Addition And Deletion Of Pages In Thermal Bound Documents
Just imagine, you have finally finished binding your proposal that you have spent the last week preparing and a coworker walks by and mentions in passing the spelling mistake right on the first page. If you have ever experienced this type of situation, yo
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Ignore At Your Own Peril - Article Submission Mistakes
Avoid having your article tossed into the "delete" file by following these basic steps.
Tags: Marketing With Articles, Article Submission Sites, Publishers, Editors, Writing, Write, Formatting, Directory, Directories, Newsgroups, Documents, Article-marketing
Replacing Lost Or Destroyed Documents
Hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, floods, landslides, earthquakes--all of these things can come when you're unprepared. That's why it's important to safeguard important documents by storing copies in a safe place away from your home.
Mortgages - Don't Get Pounded By Prepayment Penalties
Many people make a major mistake when applying for a mortgage. They are so relieved to get the loan that they fail to pay attention to prepayment penalties in the loan documents.
Tags: Mortgages, Prepayment Penalties, Loan Documents, Prepayment Penalty, Mortgage Lenders, Home Loans, Mortgage
How Senior Citizens Can Simplify And Organize Their Finances
Everyone can use some help getting their financial affairs in order, but especially senior citizens who may face special challenges and decisions involving money management later in life
Tags: Bank, Accounts, Property, Money, Safe, Account, Important, Financial, Assets, Documents, Certain, Old, Savings, Tax, Deposit, Social Security, Finance
Get To Know The Bookkeeping Basics
Most people probably think of bookkeeping and accounting as the same thing, but bookkeeping is really one function of accounting, while accounting encompasses many functions involved in managing the financial affairs of a business.
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Financial Readiness: How Prepared Are You?
Here are some tips to make sure that you are prepared financially.
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The Importance Of Anti-virus Software
Any computer and internet user, regardless of the reasons that they are online, need to have the latest antivirus software programs installed on their computer. Even thought most of these programs come already installed with your computer and are free, an
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