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Technical writing community

Technical writing community

Technical writing helps turn technical concepts into clear, concise and useful information. We write technical documentation and guidance to help technologists use products and services.

The technical writing community exists to:

  • help government understand how user-centred technical content can contribute to building and delivering better public services
  • define standards and best practice guidelines for technical content
  • build capability and skills within the profession

Who the community is for

You do not need to be a technical writer to join. You might be interested in this community if you work in the public sector and you:

  • are a technical writer
  • are a content designer
  • write for technologists
  • work with technical writers
  • want to know more about technical writing

Training, events, and recruitment

Currently, we’re not able to offer these due to capacity limitations.

Keep in touch

You can get in touch with us for informal, ad-hoc advice for technical writing challenges. Contact the technical writing community on:

Resources

Articles, courses, training and communities for people who do technical writing, or are interested in learning about technical writing.

What technical writers do and how we work

How we write

GOV.UK style and content principles

Writing for technologists

Writing accessible content

Tools and techniques we use

Docs as code

Git and GitHub for writers

Measuring content performance

Writing types of content

GitHub

Error messages

Blogs

Learning about APIs and API design

Learning about technical topics

Communities

Newsletters and mailing lists

Podcasts

Blogs

Last update:

Amendments to the support currently available from Technical Writing community.

  1. Added several new resources for the technical writing community.

  2. Guidance first published