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Technical writing is a skill. Little things like linking related topics requires foresight into the range of knowledge your audience could have. It is easy to a
by deckar01 7y ago
Technical writing is a skill. Little things like linking related topics requires foresight into the range of knowledge your audience could have. It is easy to assume everyone shares the same knowledge you do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge
- alanbernstein 7y agoThis is absolutely true, but you can seldom go wrong assuming that proper nouns (like Anki) should be accompanied by links.
- thrownaway954 7y agowhich is why i always follow the "assume nothing" rule. when writing something, assume you have to explain everything. again though, it doesn't have to be verbose, just a one liner is more than enough.
- dguo 7y agoThank you so much for adding that Wikipedia link. For years (no exaggeration), I've been trying to remember the term for the problem of forgetting what it was like to not know something. I was never able to come up with the right search query. And now I'm going to add it to my queue for making Anki cards.