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> That's an exceedingly good list, with the right emphasis on style and
usage. Perhaps there should be
> more "how to write technical content" -- but then again, that's probably
better learned in the
> classroom or on the job.
>
I would agree that this is a good list--of reference works useful to
writers. With a couple of exceptions, the books on this list relate
specifically to the discipline of technical writing not at all.
I wish I could rattle off more, but my bookshelf at this ending contract is
shrinking. But a few of the ones left here include:
- Microsoft Windows User Experience
- User and Task Analysis for Interface Design
- Designing and Writing Online Documentation
- Bugs in Writing
- The Web Content Style Guide
- Handbook of Technical Writing
- The Design of Everyday Things
Books on both tools and technologies are important too, and the technologies
shoudl be about both the technologies used to develop user assistance and
the technologies being documented.
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