Since 1994 I have established and maintained a thriving technical writing consulting business. During this time I have been responsible for designing, authoring, and publishing on-line help systems, websites, user guides, requirement and design specifications, policies and procedures, training materials, and promotional products. I also offer training courses on technical writing to industry and through [...]
Archive for Did You Know... »January 27, 2009
Technical writing often includes the copious use of numbers. Everybody has their favourite way of writing these numbers out and sometimes these are just fine; other times these can be very confusing to the reader. In many cases the grammatical and punctuation rules for using number are very clear, but many of us never learned them, especially if our training was for more literary writing. So here are some rules and some advice to remember when writing with numbers.