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Single
Sourcing: Building Modular Documentation
This guide explains in plain language and by example how to build modular
documentation you can re-use in different formats for different audiences
and purposes. It includes a conceptual overview of the single sourcing
method, a 10-step process for transforming linear documents into modular
documents, and detailed writing guidelines.
Managing
Enterprise Content: A Unified Content Strategy
Today's businesses are overwhelmed with the need to create more content,
faster, cutomized for more customers, and for more media than ever before.
Managing Enterprise Content: A Unified Content Strategy provides the
concepts, strategies, guidelines, processes, and technological options
that will prepare enterprise content managers and authors to meet the
increasing demands of creating, managing, and distributing content.
Technical
Writing: Process and Product (4th Edition)
This book guides users through the entire writing process—prewriting,
writing, and rewriting—developing an easy-to-use, step-by-step
technique for creating the types of documents they will encounter on
the job. The authors' conversational style engages students in the writing
process and encourages hands-on application.
Content
Management for Dynamic Web Delivery
Successfully manage Web content to achieve a competitive edge Using the
content management strategy that she developed for companies such as
Nortel, Motorola, Cisco, and others, Hackos walks readers through the
stages of effective Web content management. She shows how to establish
a content strategy based on what type of content a user needs, the platforms
to which it should be delivered, and the types of content necessary for
the organization.
Developing
Online Content: The Principles of Writing and
Editing for the Web
An all-in-one resource on writing, organizing, and delivering Web content
After nearly a decade of experimentation, Web professionals now know
that bells and whistles alone do not make a successful Web site. More
than anything, strong and seamlessly integrated content attracts customers
and keeps them coming back.
Hot
Text: Web Writing that Works
Attention, Web writers! This book will show you how to craft prose that
grabs your guests' attention, changes their attitudes, and convinces
them to act. You'll learn how to make your style fast, tight, and scannable.
You'll cook up links that people love to click, menus that mean something,
and pages of text that search engines rank high.
Principles
of Web Design
This textbook teaches Web design skills within a framework of information
architecture, rhetoric, and hypertext theory. The book leads students
through the design process and offers a great deal of practical, mainstream
design guidance. But in contrast to many trade books, students learn
a coherent set of principles that help them reason about each new design
challenge they face.
Technical
Communication: Strategies for College and the
Workplace
This textbook/career guide covers issues related to technical communication,
including audience analysis, collaboration, planning, research, information
management, style, illustrations, editing, job hunting, professional
development, presentation skills, and specific types of documents.
Writing
the Right Word: "Its Effect Can Affect
Your Writing"
Many writers use compliment when they mean complement, comprise when
they mean compose, or assume when they mean presume. And hundreds of
other mistaken word identities also exist. This quick reference aims
to filter this confusion of words. With clear and concise definitions,
the book speaks to many of the common word choices that challenge us
daily.
Technical
Writing: Principles, Strategies, and Readings
The instructional chapters in part one cover the writing process, ethics
and collaboration, audience analysis, organization, graphics, revision,
definition, description, instructions and process explanations, formal
report elements, short and long reports, types of reports, correspondence,
and oral presentation.
The
Tech Writer's Survival Guide: A Comprehensive
Handbook for Aspiring Technical Writers (The
Facts on File Writer's Library) In this revised edition of her 1992 text, The
tech writing game, Van Wicklen draws on her
many years of experience writing for major Silicon
Valley firms to produce a helpful and broad-based
guide that describes the communication and business
skills as well as writing and editing skills needed
to succeed in the field.
Designing
E-Learning
This sixth book in ASTD’s E-Learning Series is designed as a how-to
guide that will allow training professionals to adapt their instructional
design expertise to the demands of the e-learning environment. This book
guides readers step-by-step through the e-learning design process and
shows them how to solve the key challenges training designers face. Despite
the book’s focus on the specifics of the e-learning design process,
the author provides a valuable "big picture" view of e-learning.
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