Documentation/Resources for technical writers

Overview
This page includes resources to help technical writers grow and improve.

Learn about technical writing

 * Technical writing courses - Courses on technical writing at Wikiversity.
 * Resources for technical documentarians - Effective technical documentation is a product of effective planning, production, and presentation. Some useful notes and resources have been included on this page to support technical collaborators through each of these phases.

Become a better writer

 * Purdue online writing lab (OWL) - The Purdue OWL offers free writing resources.

= Specific types of technical documentation =

This section is for resources for technical writers working on specific kinds of documentation.

Templates and suggestions for writing in genres - This resource provides information and examples about different types of documents. This can help you decide what kind of document you want to write and help you get started.

API documentation

 * Documenting APIs - a resource for individuals who want to learn how to document APIs.

PAWS/Jupyter notebooks

 * PAWS examples and recipes - This page contains a number of example PAWS notebooks that can give you some ideas about how to format your own.

Runbooks

 * Cloud VPS Runbooks - This page provides some good general tips about how to create runbooks.