What does writing for reuse mean to a technical writer? I have lately been thinking about this, and it has also been discussed in the Writing for reuse forum in The Content Wrangler Community.
Well, it means a lot of things, but one implication is that you need to think outside the box. You need to [...]
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The National Academy of Engineering has listed the grand challenges for engineering in the 21st century. One item on the list is advance personalised learning.
The current situation is described this way:
“teaching has traditionally followed a one-size-fits-all approach to learning, with a single set of instructions provided identically to everybody in a given class, regardless of [...]
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Some time ago, the Rockley Blog talked about identical vs derivative reuse.
“When content is reused identically, it is reused without change. Derivative content is reused with change, content stays related to the original component.”
Often content cannot be used for multiple purposes directly as such. In her article, Rockley focused on two issues, the channel and [...]
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