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Subject:Re: Top XX books for tech writers? From:Lynda Straus <Lynda_Straus -at- THEMONEYSTORE -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 26 Jan 1999 08:55:43 -0800
My top ten books (can't cut it down to five) would be:
Managing Your Documentation Projects, JoAnn T. Hackos
Dynamics in Document Design, Karen A. Shriver
About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design, Alan Cooper
Human Factors for Technical Communications, Marlana Coe
Designing and Writing Online Documentation, William Horton
Standards for Online Communication, JoAnn T. Hackos, Dawn M. Stevens
Designing Windows 95 Help, Mary Deaton and Cheryl Lockett Zubak
Developing Online Help for Windows, Scott Boggan, David Farkas, & Joe
Welinske
International Technical Communication, Nancy Hoft
One Minute Designer, Roger C. Parker
There are many many more which every writer should have at hand, but
these are my favs.
Lynda Straus
The Money Store
Sacramento, CA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gil Yaker [SMTP:gyaker -at- CSC -dot- COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 8:44 AM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Top XX books for tech writers?
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>
>
> Since I joined this list about a month ago, it seems that at least
> every
> other day someone posts about a reference or theory book that has
> proven
> itself indispensable. As someone who has weakness in his wallet for
> books
> (hmm..tech writer with that problem???) I've always looked up your
> recommendations online and even purchased a few of the books.
> But an idea just popped into my head - let me outright ask what
> people's
> favorite books are.
> So let me phrase it this way for kicks: which 5 or 10 books, if
> borrowed
> from your library without the borrower asking, will infuriate you the
> most?
> Granted it's not one of my favorite books, but when a manager
> 'misplaced'
> my chicago manual of style, I was not pleasant to be around for the
> following hours until he 'found' it for me again.
> Gil Yaker
> gyaker -at- csc -dot- com
> Computer Sciences Corporation
> Federal Black Lung Project
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