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Idris Olubisi💡
Idris Olubisi💡

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Awesome Guides and Resources to Take Your Writing Skills to the Next Level

Hi everyone! Have you ever been in a situation where you feel you can't write either(Technical or Non-Technical Contents)? well, I think that happens to virtually everyone when they started writing.

I will be sharing awesome guides and resources to help you get started or take your writing skill to the next level.

Table of Contents

  • Common Mistakes And Problems
  • Promote your Contents
  • Grammar & Punctuations
  • Tools
  • Trigger Words
  • Resources

Common Mistakes And Problems

Fix Common Error in English

This is a curated list of resources that guides you from having a common error in your contents with detailed explanations and descriptions of each error.

Dr Grammar

In this resource, you will find common grammar questions that are related to English grammar, additional explanations, and examples.

Solve Common English language problems

A list of common English language problems and how to solve them. This list was compiled through an extensive archive of postings to alt.usage.english by John Lawler, Linguistics, U. Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Promote your Contents

We have several platforms where you can promote your content. Yeah! but why do you need to promote your content?

The key thing you need to remember is your audience whenever you are writing content (either Technical or Non-Technical). Promoting your content helps you to reach a larger audience where you can get to share your story, teach, contribute by sharing guides on how to do something.
I will be sharing some platform where I am pretty sure you can grow your audience and also be part of the community.

Hashnode

Hashnode is a dev blogging platform that allows you to create a blog, add a custom domain, write articles, and many more.

Dev.to

DEV Community is an amazing platform created for dev blogging getting together to help one another out.

FreeCodeCamp

Is a nonprofit community that helps you learn to code by building projects. It consists of an interactive learning web platform, an online community forum, chat rooms, online publications, and local organizations.

Hackernoon

Hackernoon is a huge platform with lots of developers. In this community, you can find lots of community builders where you can read and writing technical articles.

bloggingfordevs

It’s a platform where you can learn to grow your blog as a developer without an existing audience.

Grammar & Punctuations

Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing which Covers the grammar rules and word choice guidelines that can confound even the best writers.

English Punctuation

This is a quick and useful crash course in English punctuation.

The Guide to Grammar and Writing

This is a very useful site that helps to improve your writing, word, sentence, paragraph, etc.

Better Writing Skills

This site contains writing tips about ampersands, punctuation, character spacing, apostrophes, semicolons and commas, the difference between i.e. and e.g. etc.

Technical Writing

Extensive guidance on grammar and style for technical writing.

40+ Tips to Improve your Grammar and Punctuation

“Purdue University maintains an online writing lab and I spent some time digging through it. Originally the goal was to grab some good tips that would help me out at work and on this site, but there is simply too much not to share.”

Tools

Visual Dictionary

The Visual Dictionary Online is an interactive dictionary with an innovative approach. What do I mean by innovation approach? From the image to the word and its definition, the Visual Dictionary Online is an all-in-one reference.

Online Spell Checker

Online Spell Checker provides you with quick and accurate results for texts in 28 languages (German, English, Spanish, French, Russian, Italian, Portuguese, etc.).

Grammarly

Grammarly helps people understand one another, whenever and wherever they communicate. Every day, 30 million people around the world use our AI-powered product to strengthen their writing and say what they really mean.

WordWeb

This is a one-click English and dictionary for Windows that can look up words in almost any program, It has a great offline feature.

Word Counter

Apart from counting words and characters, the online editor can help you to improve word choice and writing style, and, optionally, help you to detect grammar mistakes and plagiarism.

Trigger Words

How to Trigger Traffic for Social Media Marketing

How To Write captivating Headlines

Passive Voice Is Redeemed For Web Headings

40+Trigger Words and Phrases for Powerful Multimedia Content

Landing Page Tutorials and Case Studies

Resources

Awesome Technical Writing Resource

Technical Writing Basics

The complete Etiquette Guide to Writting

I hope you find this resourceful and useful. Feel free to add yours in the comment section, I will update immediately.

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Monica Lent

Thanks for mentioning Blogging for Devs! Though it's more of a course and community than a platform because we don't host blogs :) Appreciate it!

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Idris Olubisi💡

Thank you for your reply.