Author Archives: Alan Thompson

5 issues to avoid when collaborating on Microsoft Word documents online

Managing large MS Word document is a challenge, especially if you’re working with text and reviewers from other team members. Track changes, especially when done online, can create all kinds of issues with formatting and layout.
However, there are several techniques to avoid this happening. Here are some guidelines to consider

Proposal Writing Course – Lesson #1 How to Write Customer-Focused Proposals

In this updated proposal writing course, we’re going to start by looking at how you can write a more customer focused proposal. Now, this might sound obvious but it can easy to miss the mark when you, and other contributors, are looking for ways to promote your company.
So, before you start writing a ‘me’ focused proposal, let’s look at how to step back, study the ask from the client’s point of view, so you can craft a response that zeroes in on their specific needs.

11 More Chat-GPT Prompt Writing Tips for Technical Summaries

If you’ve followed the previous steps, you should good technical summary. You should have saved a considerable amount of time, especially if you fed Chat-GPT with material from different documents, spreadsheets, and notes. I suspect doing this by hand would take considerably longer.
Here are some other ways you can get Chat-GPT to improve the quality of the summary.

How to Use CHAT-GPT to Summarize Technical Documents

Recently, I’ve started to use CHAT-GPT as a type of ‘Summary writer assistant’. My aim was to see if it can save me time drafting summary material, speed up the review process, and refine the quality of my own summaries. Does it help? The short answer is Yes.

User Story – Writing Guidelines and Checklists

In this week’s technical writing tutorial, we look at how to write a user story. You can use these guidelines and checklists to refine your user stories, expand the material to help your readers understand the scenario, allow developers to code the requirement, and testers to ensure it meets the acceptance criteria. Let’s get started.

10 Ways to Improve Your Business Proposal Format

Proposal Format. Your Business Proposal should match the Request For Proposal guidelines and include a three-page executive summary. This applies to proposals to Government, Research, Sales and Construction Proposals. How do I format my Business Proposal? If the Government agency’s Request For Proposal does not provide guidelines, then format your proposal as follows:

5 Ways to Demonstrate Value-For-Money in your Business Proposal

You know your Business Proposal matches the client’s requirements exactly, right? You also know that your proposal is good Value For Money and resolves the pain points for the funding agency. But, you still need to show them why.