Technical Writing category: 88 books
The Rhetorical Nature of XML
Constructing Knowledge in Networked Environments
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
The Rhetorical Nature of XML is the first volume to combine rhetoric, XML, and knowledge management in a substantive manner. It serves as a primer on XML and XML-related technologies, illustrating how the naming of XML elements can be understood as a rhetorical act, and detailing the essentials of...
4 Easy Steps to More Effective Writing
The Plan Driven Writing Methodology
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
4 Easy Steps to More Effective Writing is a book that is targeted to the needs of Business Professionals. As such, it should also be considered as excellent supplemental reading for the college or graduating high school student. The book introduces the author's easy-to-use four step methodology for developing...
by David Chrisinger
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Students and professionals across a variety of disciplines need to write public policy in a manner that inspires action and genuine change. You may have amazing ideas about how to improve the world, but if you aren’t able to communicate these ideas well, they simply won’t become reality. In Public...
Conversation and Community
The Social Web for Documentation
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Anne Gentle's Conversation and Community has become the go-to reference for social media and technical communication. Her clear-eyed survey of the social media landscape has been adopted by many universities and is widely used by technical communicators. Now, in this second edition, she has updated...
How To Write Well
INTERNET ENTREPRENEUR UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT SERIES
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
Have you felt frustrated in the middle of your writing? Have you ever thought how wonderful it would be if you can have all aspects of writing included in one little resource that you could use? Well, if your answer to one or more of the above questions is a Yes, then you have come to the right place.
This...
by Mark Baker
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
Structured writing has never been more important or more confusing. We keep trying to do more and more with content, but we give ourselves less and less time to do it. Structured content can help keep your rhetoric on track and your processes efficient. But how does it do that and what is the relationship...
Writing for the Web
Composing, Coding, and Constructing Web Sites
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Writing for the Web unites theory, technology, and practice to explore writing and hypertext for website creation. It integrates such key topics as XHTML/CSS coding, writing (prose) for the Web, the rhetorical needs of the audience, theories of hypertext, usability and architecture, and the basics...
A Field Guide for Science Writers
The Official Guide of the National Association of Science Writers
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2005
This is the official text for the National Association of Science Writers. In the eight years since the publication of the first edition of A Field Guide for Science Writing, much about the world has changed. Some of the leading issues in today's political marketplace - embryonic stem cell research,...
by Jean Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Report writing skills are essential to success in your code enforcement career. Your notices of violation, letters, and reports are public documents that may be read by supervisors, attorneys, judges, citizens, design professionals, contractors, and reporters. Quality inspection reports and notices...
The IBM Style Guide
Conventions for Writers and Editors
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
The IBM Style Guide distills IBM wisdom for developing superior content: information that is consistent, clear, concise, and easy to translate. The IBM Style Guide can help any organization improve and standardize content across authors, delivery mechanisms, and geographic locations.
This expert...
Funded!
Successful Grantwriting for Your Nonprofit
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
Funded! leads readers from knowing nothing about writing grants to having a complete grant proposal. Based on personal experience and the experiences of dozens of professional nonprofit grantwriters, students learn about writing grants by completing exercises at the end of each chapter, moving from...
Crafting your Research Future
A Guide to Successful Master's and PhD Degrees in Science & Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
What is it like to be a researcher or a scientist? For young people, including graduate students and junior faculty members in universities, how can they identify good ideas for research? How do they conduct solid research to verify and realize their new ideas? How can they formulate their ideas and...
Writing and Presenting Scientific Papers
2nd edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
The aim of this book is to provide guidelines for preparing papers and presentations so that your message can be transmitted clearly and concisely to the reader or listener. Techniques for improving your writing, literature searching and training students in communication are also discussed.
by Mark Baker
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
The Web changes how people use content; not just content on the Web, but all content. If your content is not easy to find and immediately helpful, readers will move on almost at once. We are all children of the Web, and we come to any information system, including product documentation, looking for...