Re: Need Advice: Books Every Technical Writer Should Have

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Jennifer C. Bennett <fritillary -at- gmail -dot- com> asked, 'What do you consider 
"must-have" books for an technical writer both generally, and for those 
specializing in IT? '

I frequenlty update my professional reading list and I neither own nor 
have read everything on it. Modify it to meet your professional needs.

A Concise Guide to Technical Communication, Second Edition ?Laura J. 
Gurak, John M. Lannon
A Graphic Arts Production Handbook?Bruno, Michael H
A Practical Guide to Usability?Dumas, Joseph S., and Janice C. Redish
A Sense of Audience in Written Communication ?Gesa Kirsch, Duane Roen
Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining?Fayyad, et al.
Associated Press Guide to Punctuation?Rene J. Cappon
Agile Documentation: A Pattern Guide to Producing Lightweight Documents 
for Software Projects ?Andreas Ruping
AP Stylebook?Associated Press
Common Knowledge: How Companies Thrive by Sharing What They Know?Nancy 
M. Dixon
Communication World ?Journal
Content and Complexity: Information Design in Technical 
Communication?Albers & Mazur
Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate 
Communications ?Amy Einsohn
Designing a Document Strategy?Kevin Craine
Designing and Writing Online Documentation?Horton, William
Designing Effective Instruction?Gary R. Morrison, et al
Designing Instructional Text?Hartley, James
Designing Portals?Jafari & Sheehan
Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer 
Interaction?Shneiderman, Ben
Designing Visual Language: Strategies for Professional 
Communicators?Kostelnick, Charles, and David D. Roberts
Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity?Nielsen, Jakob
Dictionary of Concise Writing: 10,000 Alternatives to Wordy 
Phrases?Robert Hartwell Fiske
Developing Quality Technical Information: A Handbook for Writers and 
Editors?Hargis, et al.
Document Management for the Enterprise : Principles, Techniques, and 
Applications?Michael J. D. Sutton
Document Strategy Design Workbook?Kevin Craine
Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability?Steve Krug
Dynamics in Document Design: Creating Text for Readers?Karen A. Schriver
Eats Shoots and Leaves?L. Truss
Effective Communication Skills for Scientific and Technical 
Professionals?Harry E. Chambers
Elements of Graph Design?Kosslyn, Stephen M
Elements of Technical Writing?Gary Blake
Elements of Technical Writing?Thomas E. Pearsall
Elements of Typographic Style?Bringhurst, Robert
Enabling Knowledge Creation: How to Unlock the Mystery of Tacit 
Knowledge and Release the Power of Innovation?Georg Von Krogh, et al
Enterprise Information Portals and Knowledge Management?Joseph Firestone
Establishing a System of Policies and Procedures ?Steve Page
E-What? A Guide to the Quirks of New Media Style and Usage?Editors of 
EEI Press
Future of Knowledge: Increasing Prosperity through Value Networks 
?Verna Allee
Gentle Art of Written Self-Defense ?Elgin
Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language, and Life?Campbell, 
Jeremy
Guidelines for Developing Instructions?Inaba, Parsons, & Smillie
Handbook of Training Evaluation and Measurement Methods?Jack J. Phillips
Harvard Business Review on Knowledge Management ?Peter F. Drucker
How to Communicate Technical Information: A Handbook of Software and 
Hardware Documentation ?Jonathan Price
How to Say It?R. Maggio
How to Write & Present Technical Information?Charles H. Sides
Human Factors for Technical Communicators ?Marlana Coe
If Only We Knew What We Know: The Transfer of Internal Knowledge and 
Best Practice?C. O?Dell, et al.
Indexing: A Nuts-and-Bolts Guide for Technical Writers ?Kurt Ament
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web?Rosenfeld, Louis, and 
Peter Morville
Information Design: The Knowledge Architect's Toolkit?Tonfoni, Graziella
Instructional Design: Implications from Cognitive Science?West, Charles 
K., James A. Farmer, and Phillip M. Wolff
Integrative Document & Content Management: Strategies for Exploiting 
Enterprise Knowledge ?Len Asprey
Interface Design & Document Design?Piet Westendorp
Introduction to Knowledge Management?Groff & Jones
Is the Help Helpful? : How to Create Online Help That Meets Your Users' 
Needs ?Jean Hollis Weber
Knowledge Management Handbook?Jay Liebowitz
Knowledge Management Lessons Learned: What Works and What Doesn't (Asis 
Monograph Series)?Michael E. D. Koenig, et al
Knowledge Management Toolkit: Orchestrating IT, Strategy, and Knowledge 
Platforms?Amrit Tiwana
The Languages of Communication?Gordon, George
Language and Communication: Essential Concepts for User Interface and 
Documentation Design ?Agnes Hulme-Kukulska
Making Instruction Work: Of Skillbloomers: A Step-By-Step Guide to 
Designing and Developing Instruction That Works?Robert F. Mager
Management Principles and Practices for Technical Communicators  ?R. 
Stanley Dicks
Managing Knowledge: A Practical Web-Based Approach?Wayne Applehans
Managing Your Documentation Projects ?JoAnn T. Hackos
Manuals That Work: A Practical Guide to Creating Effective, 
User-Friendly Manuals ?Gp Courseware
Mark My Words: Instruction and Practice in Proofreading?Peggy Smith
Mayfield Handbook of Technical and Scientific Writing ?Leslie C. 
Perelman
MIT Guide to Science and Engineering Communication ?James G. Paradis
MS Manual of Style for Technical Publications?Microsoft
New Essays in Technical and Scientific Communication?Anderson, Paul
New York Times Manual of Style and Usage?Siegal & Connolly
Power Tools for Technical Communication ?David A. McMurrey
Professional Writing and Rhetoric : Readings from the Field?Tim Peeples
Procedure Writing: Principles and Practices ?Douglas Wieringa
Professional and Technical Writing Strategies: Communicating in 
Technology and Science?Judith S. VanAlstyne
Project Management for Dummies ?Stanley E. Portny
Proposal Writing: The Art of Friendly and Winning Persuasion ?William 
Sanborn Pfeiffer
Proven Portals: Best Practices for Planning, Designing, and Developing 
Enterprise Portals?D. Sullivan
Read Me First: A Style Guide for the Computer Industry?Sun Technical 
Publications
Science and Technical Writing: A Manual of Style ?Philip Rubens
Single Sourcing : Building Modular Documentation ?Kurt Ament
Starting a Documentation Group: A Hands-On Guide ?Peter J. Hartman
Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works?Spiekermann, Erik , and 
E. M. Ginger
Storytelling in Organizations?Brown, Denning, Groth, Prusak
Structure of Written Communication: Studies in Reciprocity Between 
Readers and Writers?Nystrand, Martin
Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace.?Williams, Joseph
Technical Communication ?E. Burnett
Technical Communication ?Mary M. Lay, et al
Technical Communication ?Mike Markel
Technical Communication ?John M. Lannon
Technical Communication : A Reader-Centered Approach (with MLA 
Updates)?by Paul V. Anderson
Technical Communication in the Global Community ?Deborah C. Andrews
Technical Communication Today ?Richard Johnson-Sheehan
Technical Editing: The Practical Guide for Editors and Writers 
(Hewlett-Packard Press)?Judith A. Tarutz
Technical Writer's Companion ?Gerald J. Alred
Technical Writing 101: A Real-World Guide to Planning and Writing 
Technical Documentation?Alan S. Pringle
Technical Writing: Process and Product?Gerson & Gerson
Technical Writing: Theory and Practice?Fearing, Bertie E., and W. Keats 
Sparrow 
Textual Dynamics of the Professions: Historical and Contemporary 
Studies of Writing in Professional Communities?Bazerman, Charles, and 
James Paradis
Theories of Communication: A Short Introduction?Mattelart, Armand and 
Michele Mattelart (Trans. Taponier and Cohen)
Theories of Human Communication?Littlejohn, Stephen W
Three Keys to the Past: The History of Technical Communication?Kynell, 
Teresa, and Moran, Michael
Untechnical Writing - How to Write About Technical Subjects and 
Products So Anyone Can Understand ?Michael Bremer
Usability Engineering?AP Professionals
Usability Testing and Research ?Carol M. Barnum
User Manual Manual : How to Research, Write, Test, Edit & Produce a 
Software Manual ?Michael Bremer
Visual Communication: Images with Messages?Lester, Paul Martin
Visual Display of Quantitative Information?Tufte Edward R
Web Writing/Web Designing ?Margaret W. Batschelet
What Writers Know: The Language, Process, and Structure of Written 
Discourse?Nystrand, Martin
Writing a Professional Life: Stories of Technical Communicators On and 
Off the Job ?Gerald J. Savage
Writing and Designing Manuals: Operator Manuals, Service Manuals, 
Manuals for International Markets ?Gretchen Holstein Schoff
Writing Effective Policies and Procedures: A Step-By-Step Resource for 
Clear Communication ?Nancy Campbell
Writing in Nonacademic Settings?Odell, Lee, and Dixie Goswami, eds
Writing Software Documentation: A Task-Oriented Approach ?Thomas T. 
Barker
Writing for the Technical Professions?Kristin R. Woolever
Writing the Workplace: New Research Perspectives?Spilka, Rachel, ed


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