technical-communication-wiki
Retrieve technical communication wiki concepts. Use when the question is about technical communication: Audience analysis; Clarity technique; Document structure; Adapting the same material for different formats and reader types (executive summary vs deep reference vs quickstart)…; Editing practice. Scan concepts.json in this skill folder. Read only matching notes. Follow basename links hop by hop. Do not load every note. Do not answer from fleeting/ notes.
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- skills/technical-communication-wiki/SKILL.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/active-voice-and-concrete-language.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/adapting-pyramid-structure-for-presentations.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/anatomy-of-a-case-story.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/annotations-must-add-information-not-repeat-the-name.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/api-comments-versus-implementation-comments.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/asking-how-not-why-for-non-defensive-recall.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/bullet-point-compression-hides-technical-nuance.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/catalog-entry-structure-for-reusable-techniques.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/characters-as-subjects.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/choosing-a-different-altitude-than-what-its-explaining.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/choosing-documentation-types.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/closing-the-feedback-loop.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/comments-complete-the-interface.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/communicating-evidence-visually.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/communicating-intent-not-just-instructions.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/completeness-accuracy-clarity-tradeoff.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/concepts.json
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/conditions-actions-needs-status-briefing.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/consistent-visual-encoding-across-a-document.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/content-design-principles.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/conversational-vocabulary-as-a-documentation-diagnostic.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/correctness-versus-clarity.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/curating-guides-over-duplicating-content.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/curse-of-knowledge-and-audience-research.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/customer-versus-provider-documentation.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/cutting-clutter.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/decoration-competes-with-data-for-attention.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/deductive-and-inductive-grouping.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/diagnosing-nominalizations.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/diagrams-as-elicitation-tools-in-review.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/difficulty-explaining-signals-a-problem-with-the-thing.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/disclosing-limitations-early.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/document-observed-behavior-not-intended-behavior.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/documentation-as-code.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/documentation-plan-as-outline.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/documentation-research-artifacts.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/drafting-with-outline-first.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/eliciting-a-threshold-via-absurd-bounds.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/ethics-of-clear-writing.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/exhaustive-matrices-for-unambiguous-logic.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/expert-versus-audience-vocabulary.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/flow-linking-stress-to-topic.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/formatting-for-scanning.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/gestalt-principles-for-visual-grouping.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/headings-and-page-design-for-hierarchy.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/highlighting-what-matters-in-a-visual-display.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/imposing-logical-order-on-groupings.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/incorporating-sources-summarize-paraphrase-quote.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/keeping-comparable-information-within-one-view.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/labeling-systems-for-clarity.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/landing-pages-as-traffic-cops.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/layered-editing-passes.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/maintaining-and-deprecating-documentation.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/maintaining-style-consistency-across-a-document-set.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/matching-communication-channel-to-message-type.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/matching-document-structure-to-reader-patience.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/matching-organization-to-information-seeking-behavior.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/maximizing-the-data-ink-ratio.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/measuring-documentation-quality.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/metadiscourse.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/motivating-the-reader-with-a-problem.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/naming-the-recipient-and-requiring-acknowledgment.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/navigation-systems-for-wayfinding.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/nested-story-arcs.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/numbers-need-comparative-context.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/ocar-story-structure.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/organization-schemes-and-structures.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/organizing-documentation-by-user-goals.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/pairing-plain-language-with-precise-definitions.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/phrasing-disagreement-to-stay-collaborative.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/point-first-and-point-last-paragraphs.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/point-sentences-and-document-coherence.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/preattentive-attributes-for-rapid-visual-perception.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/precise-and-consistent-naming.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/problem-definition-framework.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/publishing-as-part-of-user-experience.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/punctuation-as-functional-choice.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/put-explanations-where-future-readers-will-look.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/pyramid-structure.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/reading-aloud-to-revise.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/reviewing-documentation-for-fitness-of-purpose.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/revising-for-argument-visibility.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/scan-friendly-function-comments.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/scfl-editing-procedure.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/seekers-versus-stumblers.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/selecting-content-by-stakeholder-concerns.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/selection-and-unity.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/sentence-order-for-reader-visualization.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/sentence-shape-for-long-sentences.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/separating-drafting-from-revision.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/separating-exceptions-from-the-main-line.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/separating-stable-from-volatile-content.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/seven-rules-for-technical-documentation.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/single-source-with-pointer-references.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/situation-complication-question-introduction.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/sketching-competing-outlines-before-committing.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/small-multiples-for-added-variable-comparison.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/sparklines-for-inline-historical-context.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/spiral-structure-for-teaching-complex-systems.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/stating-forecasts-as-calibrated-probabilities.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/stickiness-framework-succes.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/storyboarding-an-argument.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/stress-position-and-emphasis.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/strong-opening-technique.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/structuring-content-for-multi-channel-reuse.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/structuring-interface-documentation.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/subject-matter-expert-interview-technique.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/summarizing-grouped-ideas.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/telling-the-simplest-honest-story-of-a-system.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/the-funnel-technique.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/three-ways-to-reduce-what-a-reader-must-be-told.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/topic-position-and-old-before-new-information.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/translating-technical-material-for-general-readers.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/trimming-precision-to-what-the-decision-needs.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/tutorial-step-numbering.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/undocumented-automated-behavior-is-a-safety-defect.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/using-metaphor-to-explain.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/using-visuals-effectively.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/vertical-question-answer-relationship.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/when-to-involve-technical-writers.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/who-what-when-where-why-for-documents.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/worked-example-before-principles.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/write-for-the-reader-not-the-writer.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/writing-code-samples.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/writing-for-non-native-and-global-readers.md
- skills/technical-communication-wiki/writing-for-public-audiences.md
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