RE: book recommendations

["Kim McGarghan" <kmcgarghan -at- nssolutions -dot- com>]

I loved all the Bremer books as well as the Hartman book.  Bremer is
common-sense and plain-speak at its best.  Hartman is great to give you a
starting point if you have to build up a documentation group from scratch.
As a lone writer (who had previously worked only in unstructured groups
needing someone who could follow specific formats in a timely manner yet not
be part of an established tech writing group), I found these books
remarkably helpful.  I haven't read the others and therefore can't speak for
the relative merits.  You may also wish to check out JoAnn Hackos' books.

Hope this helps.

--Kim

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-----Original Message-----
From: Roberts, Dan [mailto:RobertsD -at- bis -dot- adp -dot- com]

I was browsing around on Amazon and found these titles. Can anyone provide
comments about them, either pro or con?

"Starting a Documentation Group" by Peter Martman
"Untechnical Writing" by Michael Brener
"The User Manual Manual" by Michael Brener
"TW 101: a Real World Guide" Alan S Pringle
"Writing Software Documentation" by Thomas T Barker


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