FranklinCovey Style Guide for Business and Technical Communication

FranklinCovey Style Guide for Business and Technical Communication

Author: Stephen R. Covey

Publisher: FT Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 0133090396

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This book can help any writer produce documents that achieve outstanding results. Created by FranklinCovey, the world-renowned leader in helping organizations enhance individual effectiveness, this edition fully reflects today?s online media and global business challenges.


Microsoft Manual of Style

Microsoft Manual of Style

Author: Microsoft Corporation

Publisher: Pearson Education

Published: 2012-01-15

Total Pages: 823

ISBN-13: 0735669791

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Maximize the impact and precision of your message! Now in its fourth edition, the Microsoft Manual of Style provides essential guidance to content creators, journalists, technical writers, editors, and everyone else who writes about computer technology. Direct from the Editorial Style Board at Microsoft—you get a comprehensive glossary of both general technology terms and those specific to Microsoft; clear, concise usage and style guidelines with helpful examples and alternatives; guidance on grammar, tone, and voice; and best practices for writing content for the web, optimizing for accessibility, and communicating to a worldwide audience. Fully updated and optimized for ease of use, the Microsoft Manual of Style is designed to help you communicate clearly, consistently, and accurately about technical topics—across a range of audiences and media.


The Insider's Guide to Technical Writing

The Insider's Guide to Technical Writing

Author: Krista Van Laan

Publisher: XML Press

Published: 2012-05-15

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 1457182424

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Every complex product needs to be explained to its users, and technical writers, also known as technical communicators, are the ones who do that job. A growing field, technical writing requires multiple skills, including an understanding of technology, writing ability, and great people skills. Whether you're thinking of becoming a technical writer, just starting out, or you've been working for a while and feel the need to take your skills to the next level, The Insider's Guide to Technical Writing can help you be a successful technical writer and build a satisfying career. Inside the Book Is This Job for Me? What does it take to be a technical writer? Building the Foundation: What skills and tools do you need to get started? The Best Laid Plans: How do you create a schedule that won’t make you go crazy? How do you manage different development processes, including Agile methodologies? On the Job: What does it take to walk into a job and be productive right away? The Tech Writer Toolkit: How do you create style guides, indexes, templates and layouts? How do you manage localization and translation and all the other non-writing parts of the job? I Love My Job: How do you handle the ups and downs of being a technical writer? Appendixes: References to websites, books, and other resources to keep you learning. Index


The Global English Style Guide

The Global English Style Guide

Author: John R. Kohl

Publisher: SAS Institute

Published: 2008-04-08

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 1599948427

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The Global English Style Guide illustrates how much you can do to make written texts more suitable for a global audience. Accompanied by an abundance of clearly explained examples, the Global English guidelines show you how to write documentation that is optimized for non-native speakers of English, translators, and even machine-translation software, as well as for native speakers of English. You'll find dozens of guidelines that you won't find in any other source, along with thorough explanations of why each guideline is useful. Author John Kohl also includes revision strategies, as well as caveats that will help you avoid applying guidelines incorrectly. Focusing primarily on sentence-level stylistic issues, problematic grammatical constructions, and terminology issues, this book addresses the following topics: ways to simplify your writing style and make it consistent; ambiguities that most writers and editors are not aware of, and how to eliminate those ambiguities; how to make your sentence structure more explicit so that your sentences are easier for native and non-native speakers to read and understand; punctuation and capitalization guidelines that improve readability and make translation more efficient; and how language technologies such as controlled-authoring software can facilitate the adoption of Global English as a corporate standard. This text is intended for anyone who uses written English to communicate technical information to a global audience. Technical writers, technical editors, science writers, and training instructors are just a few of the professions for which this book is essential reading. Even if producing technical information is not your primary job function, the Global English guidelines can help you communicate more effectively with colleagues around the world. This book is part of the SAS Press program.


A Strategic Guide to Technical Communication - Second Edition (US)

A Strategic Guide to Technical Communication - Second Edition (US)

Author: Heather Graves

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2012-05-23

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1770483381

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A Strategic Guide to Technical Communication incorporates useful and specific strategies for writers, to enable them to create aesthetically appealing and usable technical documentation. These strategies have been developed and tested on a thousand students from a number of different disciplines over twelve years and three institutions. The second edition adds a chapter on business communication, reworks the discussion on technical style, and expands the information on visual communication and ethics into free-standing chapters. The text is accompanied by a passcode-protected website containing materials for instructors (PowerPoint lectures, lesson plans, sample student work, and helpful links).


Franklin Covey Style Guide for Business and Technical Communication

Franklin Covey Style Guide for Business and Technical Communication

Author: Lawrence H. Freeman

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 9781883219826

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Much more than a grammar and punctuation handbook, this renowned guide helps users produce documents that reflect quality writing standards. It offers access to more than 110 topics. The CD-ROM contains more than 30 model documents, including letters, memos, and resumes.


Business and Professional Writing: A Basic Guide for Americans

Business and Professional Writing: A Basic Guide for Americans

Author: Paul MacRae

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2016-05-30

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 1460405919

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Straightforward, practical, and focused on realistic examples, Business and Professional Writing: A Basic Guide for Americans is an introduction to the fundamentals of professional writing. The book emphasizes clarity, conciseness, and plain language. Guidelines and templates for business correspondence, formal and informal reports, brochures and press releases, and oral presentations are included. Exercises guide readers through the process of creating and revising each genre, and helpful tips, reminders, and suggested resources beyond the book are provided throughout.


Pocket Guide to Technical Writing

Pocket Guide to Technical Writing

Author: William S. Pfeiffer

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780130476111

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This book provides brief guidelines and models for 16 different documents - from letters and memos to proposals and many types of reports. It also offers guidelines for special topics, such as graphics and speeches.


A Concise Guide to Technical Communication

A Concise Guide to Technical Communication

Author: Heather Graves

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2020-11-06

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1770487603

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This compact but complete guide shows that less is more—with fewer extraneous details getting in the way of students trying to learn on the run, it allows them to focus on the most important principles of effective technical communication. The Concise Guide takes a rhetorical approach to technical communication; instead of setting up a list of rules that should be applied uniformly to all writing situations, it introduces students to the bigger picture of how the words they write can affect the people intended to read them. Assignments and exercises are integrated throughout to reinforce and test knowledge.