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Subject:Re: What's on your TC bookshelf? From:Carol Gilbert <cgilbert -at- cal -dot- berkeley -dot- edu> To:"Chuck Martin" <cm -at- writeforyou -dot- com> Date:Wed, 10 Sep 2003 11:52:37 -0700
My shelf wouldn't be complete without our own Laura Lemay's
contributions. I got Teach Yourself Web Publishing in a Week once and
proposed the position and became Web Mistress for a major corporation.
How's that for a contribution from a book? It did take me more like two
weeks though. Have since gone back mostly to technical writing, but I
still use the knowledge to write on-line help and to post information.
Otherwise, who could be without a good dictionary, Thesaurus, Chicago
Manual of Style, and the manuals for all of my applications. In
addition, I buy whatever I need to come up to speed on in order to gain
understanding for any new endeavor. That might include tutorials on
UNIX, Quark, XML, Microsoft Style Manual for Tech Pubs, or The Computer
Desktop Encyclopedia.
- Carol Gilbert
