{"id":2144,"date":"2016-03-14T01:26:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T06:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2016-03-06T15:34:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T20:34:53","slug":"reading-and-the-technical-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2016\/03\/reading-and-the-technical-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading and the Technical Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>All writers should read. This goes for technical writers, too.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writers should read. Writers should read good material. Writers should read several hours a day.<\/p>\n<p>Fine. What about the technical writer? That is all non-fiction. There are plenty of good non-fiction books to read. I recommend the Pulitzer prize winners. I also recommend technology history magazines like that from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/innovation\/technology\/?no-ist\">Smithsonian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is plenty of other non-fiction technology writing out there (this blog is one source). Many, however, (this blog included) are a bit sloppy. Find high-quality non-fiction materials and read them several hours a day.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t have time? Yes, we do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips All writers should read. This goes for technical writers, too. Writers should read. Writers should read good material. Writers should read several hours a day. Fine. What about the technical writer? That is all non-fiction. There are plenty of good non-fiction books to read. I recommend the Pulitzer prize winners. I also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[243,5],"tags":[244,128],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","category-writing","tag-reading","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2145,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions\/2145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}