Re: Visually impaired technical writers

[Sharon Burton <sharonburton -at- EMAIL -dot- MSN -dot- COM>]

I just got Karen Schriver's Online documentation book and I strongly
recommend it. It is really good. Go to Amazon.com and look it up by her
name. Excellent work!

We will be using it as a text in the Delivering Online Docs class in the
Technical Writing Certificate program I and others are starting at UC
Riverside Extension.

sharon

Sharon Burton
Anthrobytes Consulting
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-----Original Message-----
From: David A. McMurrey <hcexres -at- IO -dot- COM>
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU <TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU>
Date: Wednesday, 15 July, 1998 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: Visually impaired technical writers


>Hi everyone.  I just won a contract to teach a bunch of Texas state
>employees how to convert their handbooks to hypertext -- the agency will
>be putting all its material on the web. My task is to teach them concept
>and theory and structure and all that -- and not HTML tagging.
>
>As part of my bid, I specified a book for the participants.  I'm wondering
>what your thoughts are on the best book for understanding the concept of
>hypertext and the process of restructuring existing print documents for
>hypertext.
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>Horton's book on online documentation, to my mind anyway, is a bit too
>unstructured and a bit too anecdotal.  Any thoughts you have I'd
>appreciate!
>
>-- David
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