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== Digital Technologies and Technical Writing== | == Digital Technologies and Technical Writing== | ||
With the rise of digital technology, technical writing has had to adapt to the needs of a digital era. The predominant impact of | With the rise of digital technology, technical writing has had to adapt to the needs of a digital era. The predominant impact of such a revolution was that it made technical communication more accessible by increasing the breadth of its viewers. The world-wide web is public, and thus, it can be accessed by anyone with access to the internet. Such a phenomenon can be exploited to increase the audience of a virtual document. | ||
There are several web-based tools and techniques which allow digital documents to be more easily shared. Online word processors such as [https://www.google.com/docs/about/ Google Docs] and [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/sharepoint/collaboration SharePoint] allow documents to be easily disseminated. Comment capability allows audience members to interact about a document with one another as well as with the document author. Relationships created by such online interaction fosters an environment whereby online authors might choose to utilize hypertext to link the works of various others to their personal websites and vice versa. In all, technical documentation posted online can grow a considerable audience over time. However, many aspects of effective technical writing, such as clarity, conciseness, completeness, and correctness, still need to be applied to technical writing created for digital interfaces. {{sfn|Carroll|2010|p=24}} | There are several web-based tools and techniques which allow digital documents to be more easily shared. Online word processors such as [https://www.google.com/docs/about/ Google Docs] and [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/sharepoint/collaboration SharePoint] allow documents to be easily disseminated. Comment capability allows audience members to interact about a document with one another as well as with the document author. Relationships created by such online interaction fosters an environment whereby online authors might choose to utilize hypertext to link the works of various others to their personal websites and vice versa. In all, technical documentation posted online can grow a considerable audience over time. However, many aspects of effective technical writing, such as clarity, conciseness, completeness, and correctness, still need to be applied to technical writing created for digital interfaces. {{sfn|Carroll|2010|p=24}} | ||