Technical Writing category: 88 books
DITA Best Practices
A Roadmap for Writing, Editing, and Architecting in DITA
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
The Start-to-Finish, Best-Practice Guide to Implementing and Using DITA Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is today’s most powerful toolbox for constructing information. By implementing DITA, organizations can gain more value from their technical documentation than ever before....
by Steven Gregory
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
It's a jungle out there...and in the cubicle. If you want to be a technical writer, or already are one, you have to learn how to survive in the field in order to move ahead. This work condenses 20 years of technical writing survival techniques and tips into an easy-to-read guide that will help...
Communication of Complex Information
User Goals and Information Needs for Dynamic Web Information
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2004
The amount of information available for any realistic complex situation is likely to overwhelm most users, as well as stymie any designer tasked with presenting the information. Providing large amounts of information in a coherent and usable format remains an unresolved problem. Choosing, structuring,...
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...
Developing Quality Technical Information
A Handbook for Writers and Editors
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2004
"The examples are excellent--right on target and easy to understand and adapt. Even those who don't adopt the entire procedure can profit from the parts, but the greatest value will flow to those who adopt the whole." --Carolyn Mulford, senior writer and editor of Writing That Works "This is also a...
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...
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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...
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...
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....
A Research Primer for Technical Communication
Methods, Exemplars, and Analyses
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
This practical volume provides a thorough introduction to conducting and critically reading research in technical communication, complete with exemplars of research articles for study. Offering a solid grounding in the research underpinnings of the technical communication field, this resource has...
Plain Language and Ethical Action
A Dialogic Approach to Technical Content in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Plain Language and Ethical Action examines and evaluates principles and practices of plain language that technical content producers can apply to meet their audiences’ needs in an ethical way. Applying the BUROC framework (Bureaucratic, Unfamiliar, Rights-Oriented, and Critical) to identify situations...
Lean Technical Communication
Toward Sustainable Program Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Lean Technical Communication: Toward Sustainable Program Innovation offers a theoretically and empirically-grounded model for growing and stewarding professional and technical communication programs under diverse conditions. Through case studies of disruptive innovations, this book presents a forward-looking,...
by Charles H. Sides
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Thoroughly updated to discuss the use of tools such as Skype and social media, this concise volume shows how effective communication—via written text and spoken presentations—can positively impact project management in professional environments.
• Maintains the quality of information...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
This collection, aimed at scholars, teachers, and practitioners in technical communication, focuses on the praxis-based connections between technical communication and theoretical movements that have emerged in the past several decades, namely new materialism and posthumanism. It provides a much needed...