Kelly S.- Let Technology Be Your Guide!

Welcome to the 21st century where most of our writing is done online, and sent over the web through emails, attached documents, blogs, instant messaging, text messaging, and other web-based formats. To make things a bit easier on today’s writers, electronic templates and wizards help set up our writers for success.



Template: A template is a preexisting document already formatted for the particular type of technical writing. Word processors will usually come equipped with templates to aid in formatting memos, letter, resumes, and other technical writing.
- Templates are easily available, and easy to use
- Companies and organizations can customize templates to create a more specific format for their documentation
- Custom templates in companies help reduce the amount of time it takes to write and format a technical document, along with creating a more professional look for the company.

Wizards: A wizard in terms to technical writing helps guide writers through a series of dialogue boxes with different steps to help aid in producing documents such as, web pages, blogs, and other web-based formats.
- Advanced wizards can aid in design elements of a technical document, along with arranging the content of information, and the style of the document.
- Wizards can be used as a problem solving approach when troubleshooting.
- Wizards help solve problems more specifically by asking the writer questions to narrow down the problem with more specific solutions