Technical category: 2066 books
by Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Let’s face it, a lot of technical documentation reads as if it had been translated into English from Venutian by a native speaker of gibberish. Which is annoying for you and expensive for the manufacturer who pays with alienated customers and soaring technical support costs. That’s why good technical...
Content and Complexity
information Design in Technical Communication
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Information design is an emerging area in technical communication, garnering increased attention in recent times as more information is presented through both old and new media. In this volume, editors Michael J. Albers and Beth Mazur bring together scholars and practitioners to explore the issues...
by Ray Gallon
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
The Language of Technical Communication has a dual objective: to define the terms that form the core of technical communication as it is practiced today, while predicting where the field will go in the future. The choice of terms defined in this book followed two overarching principles: include all...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Addressing the explosive growth in qualitative research in recent years, this volume represents the first anthology to bring together a representative sample from this growing body of work, and comments on the reasons for the extraordinary interest in qualitative research. Contributors to the volume...
Reshaping Technical Communication
New Directions and Challenges for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
This anthology brings together voices from industry and academia in a call for elevating the status, identity, value, and influence of technical communicators. Editors Barbara Mirel and Rachel Spilka assert that technical communicators must depart from their traditional roles, moving instead in a...
by David Kmiec, Bernadette Longo
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Helps both engineers and students improve their writing skills by learning to analyze target audience, tone, and purpose in order to effectively write technical documents
This book introduces students and practicing engineers to all the components of writing in the workplace. It teaches readers...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2012
The field of technical communication is rapidly expanding in both the academic world and the private sector, yet a problematic divide remains between theory and practice. Here Stuart A. Selber and Johndan Johnson-Eilola, both respected scholars and teachers of technical communication, effectively...
Rhetoric in the Flesh
Trained Vision, Technical Expertise, and the Gross Anatomy Lab
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Rhetoric in the Flesh is the first book-length ethnographic study of the gross anatomy lab to explain how rhetorical discourses, multimodal displays, and embodied practices facilitate learning and technical expertise and how they shape participants’ perceptions of the human body. By investigating...
Technical Writing, Presentational Skills, and Online Communication
Professional Tools and Insights
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
This book addresses four main topics: professional ethics, technical writing, presentation skills, and online writing. These topics are woven throughout the book and some of them are the main subjects of one or more chapters. The overarching theme of this book is to provide well-tested, best-practice...
Developing Quality Technical Information
A Handbook for Writers and Editors
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
The #1 Guide to Excellence in Technical Communication—Fully Updated for Embedded Assistance, Mobile, Search, Multimedia, and More Direct from IBM’s own content design experts, this guide shows you how to design product interfaces and technical information that always place users front and center....
by Thomas Achatz
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2005
The most authoritative text for technical mathematics is now better than ever! Completely revised and updated, this new edition of a classic best seller provides the algebraic, geometric, and trigonometric concepts essential to solving problems commonly encountered in technical and trade occupations....
by Geoffrey Marnell
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
A wide-ranging collection of essays covering a multitude of topics: from how best to write technical documents for an international audience to can readability be measured. In the mix is a discussion on structured authoring, why human-generated indexes are important, ethical obligations on technical...
The Rhetoric of Risk
Technical Documentation in Hazardous Environments
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2003
The crash of an Amtrak train near Baltimore, the collapse of the Hyatt hotel in Kansas City, the incident at Three Mile Island, and other large-scale technological disasters have provided powerful examples of the ways that communication practices influence the events and decisions that precipitate...
FranklinCovey Style Guide
For Business and Technical Communication
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
FranklinCovey Style Guide: For Business and Technical Communication can help any writer produce documents that achieve outstanding results. Created by FranklinCovey, the world-renowned leader in helping organizations enhance individual effectiveness, this edition fully reflects today’s online media...