The Best Documentation & Technical Writing Books 2024

1. Read Me First! a Style Guide for the Computer Industry, Used [Paperback]

The definitive reference for technical writers, editors, and documentation managers, Read Me First A Style Guide for the Computer Industry, Third Edition, has been revised and updated to cover everything from creating screencasts and referencing web sites to writing for wikis. This award-winning guide to creating clear, consistent, and easy-to-understand documentation covers everything from grammar and writing style to typographic and legal guidelines. The authors, who are senior editors and writers at Sun Microsystems, share their extensive experience and provide practical tips and recommendations, including guidance on hiring writers, working with illustrators, managing schedules and workflow, and more. The third edition of Read Me First features new chapters on: Writing for wikis and encouraging wiki collaboration Creating screencasts, using screencast terminology, and guidelines for writing narration Creating alternative text for nontext elements such as screen captures, multimedia content, illustrations, and diagrams It also includes new tables for symbol name conventions, for common anthropomorphisms, and for common idioms and colloquialisms. An updated and expanded recommended reading list suggests additional resources.

Read Me First! : A Style Guide for the Computer Industry, Used [Paperback]

2. Implementing an Electronic Medical Record System: Successes, Failures, Lessons [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Clinicians and managers are increasingly required to participate in or manage new initiatives which depend heavily on co-operation collaboration and a multidisciplinary approach where effective interpersonal and group skills are of vital importance. This practical guide encourages the reader to determine how their organisations work and the impact they have on their members. It draws on the experiences of primary care research and development projects and contains numerous case studies tips and techniques to manage change. It is an essential guide for healthcare professionals in primary care and will equip those working in practice and facilitators working with practices with a clear understanding of how to achieve successful acceptance and management of change.

Implementing an Electronic Medical Record System: Successes, Failures, Lessons, Used [Paperback]

3. Documenting Software Architectures : Views and Beyond, Used [Hardcover]

For all but the most trivial software systems, you must pay close attention to its architecture, the conceptual glue that holds every phase of a project together.

Documenting Software Architectures : Views and Beyond, Used [Hardcover]

4. International Technical Communication: How to Export Information about High Technology (Wiley Technical Communications Library) [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. A superlative guide detailing every phase of creating more effective international technical communication whether it is verbal, graphic, printed or electronic. Emphasizes how to develop the skills (communicating technical data to an international audience), the process (a document cycle for international product distribution) and the product. Strategies, techniques and practical tips demonstrate how to communicate internationally quickly, cheaply and well. Includes anecdotes, examples, graphics, worksheets, a reference of universal international information and a list of dozens of international resources that can provide data on target countries and users.

International Technical Communication: How to Export Information about High Technology (Wiley Technical Communications Library) [Paperback - Used]

5. Read Me First!: A Style Guide for the Computer Industry, Used [Paperback]

This text for every technical writer, editor and documentation manager, is a guide to creating technical documentation that is clear, consistent and easy to understand. Sun Microsystems technical writers and editors cover everything from grammar to clarity, illustrations to workflow. This revised second edition reflects dramatic changes in the production and delivery of technical documentation.

Read Me First! : A Style Guide for the Computer Industry, Used [Paperback]