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The Best UX Writing Books (my top picks in 2026)

If you want to get better at UX writing fast, books are still the cheapest shortcut I know. Here are the UX writing books I’d personally buy again, plus what each one teaches you and when I actually use it at work.
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How I’d Build Grant Writing Skills that ACTUALLY Matter in 2026

Learning grant writing is less about “writing pretty” and more about research, project management, and making a funder trust your plan. Here’s the path I’d follow today.
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The 40 UX Writing Examples That Inspire Me and What I Learn From Each

In this guide, I’ll show you 40 real-world UX writing examples (good and bad), explain why each one works or fails, and give you copy patterns you can steal for onboarding, errors, empty states, subscriptions, accessibility, and more.
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How I Write Grant Proposal Cover Letters That Get Noticed

Here I go over everything that you need to know about grant proposal cover letters and how to create one that does the job.
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What Is the Grant Writing Process? The 8 Steps I Follow

Grant writing is the process of creating a grant application that convinces a funding agency or grantmaking institution to fund a specific project. It’s equal parts writing, planning, and “did we follow every instruction exactly.”
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The Grant Proposal Budget Template I Use to Win Grants

A strong grant budget is a credibility document, not just a spreadsheet. Here’s the budget template structure I use, how I fill it out step-by-step, and what to do for cost share, subawards, and F&A.
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4 Types of Business Writing That Matter — How I Use Them

I define business writing by purpose rather than format. It can be transactional, informational, instructional, and persuasive. Each type shifts what matters most: speed, clarity, precision, or influence.
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Business Writing Tips (my best advice for 2026)

Business writing is less about sounding smart and more about getting the right outcome without extra meetings. These are the tips I use when I need an email, memo, report, or proposal to be clear, credible, and easy to act on.
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Business Writing Skills that ACTUALLY Matter in 2026

In this guide, I’ll break down the core skills I rely on, plus how I practice them across emails, reports, proposals, and instructions.
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Business Writing Principles that ACTUALLY Work

The article lays out practical principles: audience awareness, clarity of purpose, strong structure, concision, concreteness, and accuracy.
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The Best Business Writing Examples Im Using for Inspiration in 2026

This article breaks down the most practical business writing examples I rely on in 2026, from emails and reports to proposals and handbooks, and explains how I choose the right format based on audience and purpose.
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XML vs DITA: How I Learned the Difference and When I Use Each

XML is the language. DITA is a specific XML-based standard that provides a ready-made content model, reuse mechanisms, and a publishing ecosystem. If your docs are small, XML or even Markdown can be enough. If your docs are big, reused, translated, and shipped to multiple channels, DITA usually wins.
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Josh Fechter

I’m the founder of Technical Writer HQ and Squibler, an AI writing platform. I began my technical writing career in 2014 at a video-editing software company, went on to write documentation for Facebook’s first live-streaming feature, and later had my work recognized by LinkedIn’s engineering team.