Be a Conscious Writer: Understanding Bias
Explore how to identify conscious and unconscious bias in your writing and learn strategies to avoid generalizations, gendered language, and stereotypes. Understand how to write inclusively and sensitively, ensuring your technical content respects and reflects diverse audiences effectively.
When we are writing, it’s important for us to actively avoid biased language and write with sensitivity. Your audience will most likely be a diverse one that includes people of all genders, races, sexualities, classes, etc. Therefore, your writing should be inclusive of that audience.
What is bias?
Bias is the inclination or prejudices that one individual may have for or against someone or something. Bias can be
Avoid bias
Since bias is often unconscious, the only real way to avoid it is to learn what it looks like. Let's look at a few things we can do. ...