Posts Tagged ‘Books’
Book Review – Guidelines for Developing Instructions
Book by Kay Inaba, Stuart O. Parsons, and Robert Smillie Introduction This is a small but information-packed (and rather expensive) 136-page book for all technical writers who are writing procedural guides and/or maintenance and troubleshooting manuals for mechanical systems. The authors clearly have a lot of experience in documenting mechanical systems and working on military…
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© 2010 Ugur Akinci Spring Into Technical Writing for Engineers and Scientists by Barry J. Rosenberg is definitely one of the better technical writing books out there. You can tell it was written by an industry professional who himself spent quite a few years in the “trenches,” trying to solve one pesky documentation problem after…
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How to Write an Excellent Index
Introduction An index is an alphabetical list of subjects and page numbers that will help the reader find information in a textbook, journal article, or other publication. An index should be: – Alphabetized by the first word of the entry – Arranged so that words are grouped together by topic – Clearly labeled with…
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