[Forwarding Kristen's reply to] Topic Writing and Editing

["Edgar D' Souza" <edgar -dot- b -dot- dsouza -at- gmail -dot- com>]

All: Two posts from Kristen have appeared without content, but her
reply to me did come through with content - so I'm forwarding a copy
of her mail to the list, and hoping this doesn't violate some taboo :)
Naturally, my apologies for messing up the subject line so badly...

Regards
Ed.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Kristen James Eberlein <keberlein -at- pobox -dot- com>
Date: Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 7:29 PM
Subject: Re: Topic Writing and Editing
To: Edgar D' Souza <edgar -dot- b -dot- dsouza -at- gmail -dot- com>


Resources about topic-based authoring

"Topic-based authoring" by JoAnn Hackos
http://dita.xml.org/topic-based-authoring

Wikipedia entry (very sparse)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic-based_authoring

"Process Re-engineering for Topic Based Authoring," presentation by
Rob Hanna at Spectrum 2008, Rochester, NY.
http://www.slideshare.net/rhanna/process-reengineering-for-topic-based-authoring

Developing Quality Technical Information: A Handbook for Writers and
Editors. 2nd edition.
http://tinyurl.com/6otcb4

This book, published in 2004 by a team of IBM writers and editors, is
based on the premise that topic-based writing is a hallmark of quality
technical information. This is hands-down my favorite book about
technical communication :)

Anyone else have any particularly good resources to share?

Kristen James Eberlein
Member, OASIS DITA Technical Committee and OASIS DITA Adoption Committee
Member, Editorial Board of dita.xml.org
http://www.linkedin.com/in/kristeneberlein
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