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Recommend Best Books
Style Guides
- The Chicago Manual of Style By University of Chicago Press Staff, University of Chicago Press; 16th edition
- The Columbia Guide to Online Style by Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor, Columbia University Press; 2nd edition
- The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E. B. White, Longman; 4th edition
- The Global English Style Guide - Writing Clear, Translatable Documentation for a Global Market by John Kohl, SAS Press
- The IBM Style Guide - Conventions for Writers and Editors, by Francis DeRespinis, Peter Hayward, Jana Jenkins, Amy Laird, Leslie McDonald, Eric Radzinski, IBM Press
- Read Me First! A Style Guide for the Computer Industry by Sun Technical Publications, Prentice Hall; 3rd edition
- The Yahoo! Style Guide - The Ultimate Sourcebook for Writing, Editing, and Creating Content for the Digital World by Yahoo!, St. Martin’s Griffin
Writing Resources
- The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation by Jane Strauss, Jossey-Bass; 10th edition
- Developing Quality Technical Information - A Handbook for Writers and Editors, by Gretchen Hargin, Michelle Carey, Ann Kilty Hernandez, Polly Hughes, Deirdre Longo, Shannon Rouiller, Elizabeth Wilde, IBM Press; 2nd edition
- Handbook for Writing Proposals, Second Edition, by Robert J. Hamper and L. Sue Baugh, McGraw-Hill; 2nd edition
- Handbook of Technical Writing, by Gerald J. Alred, Charles T. Brusaw, Walter E. Oliu, St. Martin’s Press; 10th edition
- How to Communicate Technical Information - A Handbook of Software and Hardware Documentation by Jonathan Price and Henry Korman, Addison-Wesley Professional
- Kaplan Technical Writing - A Comprehensive Resource for Technical Writers at All Levels, by Carrie Hannigan, Carrie Wells, Diane Martinez, Carolyn Stevenson, and Tanya Peterson, Kaplan Publishing; 2nd edition
- Letting Go of the Words - Writing Web Content that Works by Janice (Ginny) Redish, Morgan Kaufmann
- Spring Into Technical Writing for Engineers and Scientists by Barry J. Rosenberg, Addison-Wesley Professional
- Technical Writing 101 - A Real-World Guide to Planning and Writing Technical Content by Alan S. Pringle and Sarah S. O’Keefe, Scriptorium Publishing Services; 3rd edition
Tools and Technology
- Beginning CSS - Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design, by Ian Pouncey and Richard York, Wrox; 3rd edition
- Building a WordPress Blog People Want to Read by Scott McNulty, Peachpit Press; 2nd edition
- The Compass - Essential Reading about XML, DITA, and Web 2.0]] by Sarah S. O’Keefe, Scriptorium Publishing; 2nd edition
Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation, by Anne Gentle, XML Press
- CSS - The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland, O’Reilly Media; 2nd edition
- DITA Best Practices - A Roadmap for Writing, Editing, and Architecting in DITA, by Laura Bellamy, Michelle Carey, and Jenifer Schlotfeldt, IBM Press
- Introduction to DITA: A User Guide to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture Including DITA 1.2, By JoAnn T. Hackos, Comtech Services, Inc.; 2nd edition
- XML in a Nutshell, By Elliotte Rusty Harold, W. Scott Means, O’Reilly Media 3rd edition
- XML in Technical Communication, By Charles Cowan, Institute of Scientific and Technical Co
- WIKI - Grow Your Own for Fun and Profit, by Alan J. Porter, XML Press
Content Design and Planning
- Content Management for Dynamic Web Delivery, by JoAnn T. Hackos, Wiley
- Content Strategy for the Web, by Kristina Halvorson and Melissa Rach, New Riders Press; 2nd edition
- Don’t Make Me Think - A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, by Steve Krug, New Riders Press; 2nd edition
- ddg>Is the Help Helpful? How to Create Online Help That Meets Your Users’ Needs, by Jean Hollis Weber, Hentzenwerke Publishing
A Practical Guide to Localization
By Bert Esselink
John Benjamins Publishing Co.
User and Task Analysis for Interface Design
By JoAnn T. Hackos and Janice C. Redish
Wiley
Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites
By Patrick J. Lynch and Sara Horton Yale University Press; 3rd edition
People and Project Management
Information Development: Managing Your Documentation Projects, Portfolio, and People
By JoAnn T. Hackos
Wiley; 2nd edition
Managing Your Documentation Projects
By JoAnn T. Hackos
Wiley
Managing Translation Services
By Geoffrey Samuelsson-Brown
Multilingual Matters
Managing Writers: A Real World Guide to Managing Technical Documentation
By Richard L. Hamilton
XML Press
Technical Writing Management: A Practical Guide
By Steven A. Schwarzman
CreateSpace
And More…
Crown Archetype
Coping with Difficult People: The Proven-Effective Battle Plan That Has Helped Millions Deal with the Troublemakers in Their Lives at Home and at Work
By Robert M. Bramson
Dell/Random House
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
By Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen
Penguin
Demystifying Grant Seeking: What You Really Need to Do to Get Grants
By Larissa Golden Brown and Martin John Brown
Jossey-Bass
How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business
By Douglas W. Hubbard
Wiley
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
By Alan Cooper
Sams Pearson Education
The Non-Designer’s Design Book
By Robin Williams
Peachpit Press; 3rd edition
Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum
Mike Cohn
Addison-Wesley Professional
Writing Effective Use Cases
Alistair Cockburn
Addison-Wesley Professional
Appendix C
Websites
The websites listed in this book, plus a few more that you’ll like. Websites come and go, but all were live at the time of publication.
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Writing Resources
The Content Wrangler
Content is a business asset worthy of being managed
Doc Symmetry
Technical writing tips for technical writers and managers of writers
English Grammar
Grammar lessons, exercises, and rules for everyday use
Grammar Book
Website for The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
Grammar Girl
Quick and dirty tips for better writing
grammar.quickanddirtytips.com
Gryphon Mountain Journals
Ben Minson’s blog on technical communication
Guide to grammar and writing
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar
Plain Language
Improving communication from the federal government to the public
The Rockley Group
Content management strategies
Simplified Technical English
International specification for preparing documentation in a controlled language
Writing.com
An online community for writers
Structured Content
XML
DITA
www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-dita1
dita.xml.org
DocBook
Sites to Help Build Your Portfolio
- Calibre - ebook management - httss://calibre-ebook.com
FLOSS Manuals Foundation
Free manuals for free software
Grant Writers Online
Your guide to easy and effective grant writing
grantwritersonline.com
iFixit
The free online repair manual that you can edit
Open Office.org
The Free and Open Productivity Suite
Open Source as Alternative
Open source software alternatives
Open Source Initiative
Education on open source
Open Source Windows
Open source software that runs on Windows
Sourceforge
Find, create, and publish open source software for free
Technical Writing Zone
Helping you find writing jobs
Volunteer Match
volunteermatch.org
wikiHow
The how-to manual you can edit
Wikipedia
The free, editable online encyclopedia
Networking and Job-Hunting
Ask the Headhunter
Nick Corcodilos’s website on job searching and hiring
Ask the Headhunter blog
Meetup
Technical Writing World
The social network for technical communicators
http://technicalwritingworld.com
United States Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics
Technical Writer Job Category
bls.gov/ooh/Media-and-Communication/Technical-writers.htm
Organizations and Conferences
Center for Information-Development Management
Center for Information-Management Development
LavaCon Conference on Digital Media and Content Strategies
Project Management Institute
Rockley Group
rockley.com
Society for Technical Communication (STC)
Techwhirl, home of the TECHWR-L mailing list
Technical Communication UK
www.technicalcommunicationuk.com
Tekom (German association for technical communication and information development)
Toastmasters International
Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA)
www.usabilityprofessionals.org
Writers UA
Training and information for user assistance professionals
Technical Dictionaries
Acronym Finder
Tech Dictionary
TechTerms
The Lighter Side of Technical Writing
Ban Comic Sans
Putting the sans in Comic Sans
Comic Sans Criminal
“Helping people like you learn to use Comic Sans appropriately”
Dilbert
Miscellaneous
Blind Text Generator (Lorem Ipsum generator)
www.blindtextgenerator.com/lorem-ipsum
eBay
JIRA Issue-Tracking Tool
atlassian.com/JIRA
Keirsey Temperament Sorter
Myers-Briggs
Readability Formulas
Safe Computing Tips
Telework Research Network
www.teleworkresearchnetwork.com
User Interface Engineering
Jared Spool’s firm specializing in website and product usability
WebMD Stretching Exercises at Your Desk
www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/features/stretching-exercises-at-your-desk-12-simple-tips
WikiHow - How to Exercise While Sitting at Your Computer
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