How Google's Technical Writing Course Helped Me Become a Better Writer

 By freeCodeCamp.org - 2021-02-08

Description

Google has a technical writing course that I recently completed and highly enjoyed. It takes roughly 4 hours, and has some exercises along the way so you can test yourself. I'm going to briefly expla ...

Summary

  • Google has a technical writing course that I recently completed and highly enjoyed.
  • The item "chocolate chip cookies" doesn't logically belong in the list, the capitalisation/casing of each element is different, and the punctuation isn't consistently applied (It's not clear why "JAVASCRIPT" ends in a "?
  • ", The subject is the one doing the thing.
  • Active voice is far more familiar to the reader, as we read active voice writing most of the time Passive voice sometimes forces the reader to guess who did what in the sentence and obscures the meaning Active voice is generally shorter than passive voice.

 

Topics

  1. NLP (0.1)
  2. UX (0.1)
  3. Coding (0.06)

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