What is Structured Writing?

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Structured writing is an approach to creating content that fits into a larger content strategy. It has many different components and can be applied in many different ways, offering numerous benefits and challenges as well. Since this is a wide-ranging topic, I'm going to share my thoughts on structured writing in a series of blog posts, starting with a high-level approach to structured writing and ending with concepts of authoring in XML using the DITA standard.