Ask HN: Best way to improve your technical writing skills?

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What's the best way to improve your technical writing skills? I don't mean marketing material for websites, but rather memos, technical reports, white papers, etc.

My target audience is technically-savvy management but presumably the same advice would apply for white papers written for potential customers.

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I don't believe in finding a 'best way' to improving your tech writing skills. But what I can recommend is that researching and writing several technical blog-posts on certain interests that you think could be useful for others are very good ways in knowing how to communicate with a technical audience and improving your tech writing skills. This is done on HN every day.

Also get someone else to look at your report/blog/white-paper/etc for proof-reading as you might not be able to see your own mistakes as you write it.

Lastly, reading and quoting the references are always a must. Also a way of improving your technical knowledge and writing too.

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