Technical Writer — resources

roadmap.sh: https://roadmap.sh/technical-writer

Books

  • Docs for Developers (Bhatti, Corleissen, Lambourne, Nunez, Waterhouse) — practical, end-to-end playbook for writing, publishing, and maintaining developer documentation.
  • The Product is Docs (Splactive / Christopher Gales & the Splunk team) — how docs teams operate inside product organizations: strategy, structure, and metrics.
  • Developing Quality Technical Information (Gretchen Hargis et al., IBM) — the classic reference on the quality characteristics of good technical writing (clarity, accuracy, completeness).
  • Every Page Is Page One (Mark Baker) — designing topic-based, web-first documentation that readers actually navigate.

Courses / practice

  • Google Technical Writing Courses — free Tech Writing One & Two; the standard starting point for fundamentals.
  • Write the Docs — community, guide, and conference talks covering docs-as-code, tooling, and best practices.
  • The Good Docs Project — open-source templates and guidance for common documentation types (how-tos, references, tutorials).