A Strategic Guide To Technical Communication

Author : Heather Graves,Roger Graves
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781770483385

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A Strategic Guide to Technical Communication - Second Edition (US) by Heather Graves,Roger Graves Pdf

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).

Author : Heather Graves,Roger Graves
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 155481023X

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A Strategic Guide to Technical Communication - Second Edition (Canadian) by Heather Graves,Roger Graves Pdf

A Strategic Guide to Technical Communication incorporates useful and specific strategies for writers 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. Particular attention is paid throughout to the needs of Canadian students.

Author : Heather Graves
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Communication of technical information
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Strategic Guide to Technical Communication by Heather Graves Pdf

Author : Heather Graves,Roger Graves
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-06
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781770487604

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A Concise Guide to Technical Communication by Heather Graves,Roger Graves Pdf

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.

Author : Paul MacRae
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781460405918

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Business and Professional Writing: A Basic Guide for Americans by Paul MacRae Pdf

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.

Author : Yvonne Cleary
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000407389

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The Profession and Practice of Technical Communication by Yvonne Cleary Pdf

Practical, research-based overview of careers in technical communication featuring narratives from working professionals in a range of careers and international contexts Technical communication is a diverse, growing, and rapidly changing field, and an up-to-date guide to careers will be useful for students and junior professionals in the US and Europe Competing books on technical communication careers are outdated and do not include non-US contexts; this book contains current research and practitioner narratives that most closely examine careers as they operate today

Author : Guiseppe Getto,Jack Labriola,Sheryl Ruszkiewicz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429574986

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Content Strategy in Technical Communication by Guiseppe Getto,Jack Labriola,Sheryl Ruszkiewicz Pdf

Content Strategy in Technical Communication provides a balanced, comprehensive overview of the current state of content strategy within the field of technical communication while showcasing groundbreaking work in the field. Emerging technologies such as content management systems, social media platforms, open source information architectures, and application programming interfaces provide new opportunities for the creation, publication, and delivery of content. Technical communicators are now sometimes responsible for such diverse roles as content management, content auditing, and search engine optimization. At the same time, we are seeing remarkable growth in jobs devoted to these other content-centric skills. This book provides a roadmap including best practices, pedagogies for teaching, and implications for research in these areas. It covers elements of content strategy as diverse as "Editing Content for Global Reuse" and "Teaching Content Strategy to Graduate Students with Real Clients," while giving equal weight to professional best practices and to pedagogy for content strategy. This book is an essential resource for professionals, students, and scholars throughout the field of technical communication.

Author : Nancy L. Hoft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1995-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015040076039

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International Technical Communication by Nancy L. Hoft Pdf

A complete guide to planning, writing and designing documentation for distribution to an international audience. Shows publication departments and design teams how to create one document for world-wide distribution; covers all forms of documentation; carefully describes the do's and taboos of page layout, color, example choices and much more.

Author : Heather Graves,Roger Graves
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781770487789

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Business Communication: Rhetorical Situations by Heather Graves,Roger Graves Pdf

Business and professional communication takes place in a dynamic, ever-changing environment. How can we best help students prepare to communicate in such a challenging environment? The pedagogies of the twentieth century—lectures, quizzes, and exams—have not kept up to these new demands for student engagement. Business Communication: Rhetorical Situations supports more interactive and collaborative pedagogies to motivate students. Each chapter has two or three cases that challenge students to apply the business communication concepts they are learning to a specific set of circumstances. These cases are drawn from real-life communication situations and invite students to think through a communication situation and take action. After each case, challenges and exercises provide more opportunities for students to analyze and reflect on business documents and practice the skills discussed in the case themselves. Throughout, rhetorical concepts such as audience, genre, and purpose are central and collaboration and creativity are encouraged.

Author : Miles A. Kimball,Ann R. Hawkins
Publisher : Bedford/St. Martin's
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0312436998

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Document Design by Miles A. Kimball,Ann R. Hawkins Pdf

The technological revolution of the last ten years has radically changed document designers' materials, processes, and tools of the trade. In short, choices about everything from typography and color to planning and production have changed -- even multiplied. The first new text for the college market in ten years, Kimball and Hawkins' Document Design assumes from the start that students are working online to produce a fuller range of print and online documents, designed and delivered differently in a digital world. Through practical, accessible advice and examples, Kimball and Hawkins lay out the array of elements and choices that document designers need to consider, all in the context of a rhetorical framework that allows students to see the effects of those choices. The only text to integrate a range of theoretical perspectives, visual perception, visual culture, and visual rhetoric, Document Design teaches students to think more critically about their own design decisions and to keep usability in mind every step of the way. True to its message, this artfully designed text practices the principles it teaches and is sure to become a reference that students will keep.

Author : Charles Marsh,David W. Guth,Bonnie Poovey Short
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317343875

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Strategic Writing by Charles Marsh,David W. Guth,Bonnie Poovey Short Pdf

In its third edition, Strategic Writing emphasizes the strategic, goal-oriented mission of high-quality media and public relations writing with clear, concise instructions for more than 40 types of documents. This multidisciplinary text covers writing for public relations, advertising, sales and marketing, and business communication. Featuring a spiral binding, numerous examples and a user-friendly "recipe" approach, Strategic Writing is ideal for public relations writing classes that include documents from other disciplines.

Author : JoAnn T. Hackos
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0471590991

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Managing Your Documentation Projects by JoAnn T. Hackos Pdf

Practical, authoritative, and the first comprehensive guide tomanaging every phase of your publication project. The only bookdevoted exclusively to technical publication project management,Managing Your Documentation Projects arms you with provenstrategies and techniques for producing high-quality, extremelyusable documentation, while cutting cost and time-to-market. Dr.JoAnn T. Hackos, a top documentation design and project managementconsultant to major corporations, including IBM andHewlett-Packard, shares with you the fruit of her more than 15years of experience in the field. She gives you: * Clear-cut, rational guidelines to managing every phase of theproject from planning and development, through production,distribution, and project evaluation * Scores of usable templates, checklists, summaries, andforms * Dozens of real-life case studies and scenarios taken from theauthor's extensive experience at top corporations * Techniques applicable to virtually all fields ofdocumentation Managing Your Documentation Projects was designed to function as acomprehensive guide for new managers and a daily tool of survivalfor veterans. It is also an invaluable resource for technicalwriters, editors, graphic designers, consultants, and anyone calledupon to produce high-quality technical documentation on time andwithin budget. JOANN T. HACKOS, PhD, is President of ComtechServices, Inc., an information/design firm in Denver, Colorado andSan Jose, California. She is also president of JoAnn Hackos &Associates, Inc., a strategic planning and management consultingfirm. In 1993, she served as president of the Society for TechnicalCommunication (STC) and is a frequent conference keynote speaker onsuch topics as quality and usability of products and services, theimportance of meeting the needs of the customer, and projectmanagement.

Author : Laurie Lewis
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781444340358

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Organizational Change by Laurie Lewis Pdf

Organizational Change integrates major empirical, theoretical and conceptual approaches to implementing communication in organizational settings. Laurie Lewis ties together the disparate literatures in management, education, organizational sociology, and communication to explore how the practices and processes of communication work in real-world cases of change implementation. Gives a bold and comprehensive overview of communication research and ideas on change and those who bring it about Fills in an important piece of the applied communication puzzle as it relates to organizations Illustrated with student friendly, real life case studies from organizations, including organizational mergers, governmental or nonprofit policy or procedural implementation, or technological innovation Winner of the 2011 Organizational Communication NCA Division Book of the Year

Author : Thea M. van der Geest
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001-11-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027298300

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Web Site Design is Communication Design by Thea M. van der Geest Pdf

Web Site Design is Communication Design is written for practitioners, trainers, and students of Communication, Business, Information Science and Media Design. This book is based on a series of case studies of web-site design processes in smaller and larger organizations, including Amazon and Microsoft. It offers a well-researched, reflective and thorough analysis of the activities undertaken, in combination with practical, real-life experiences of web-site designers and producers. It pays attention to the often complicated organizational context that web designers and producers have to work in, while they serve both bosses and target groups to their best intents. The importance of careful evaluation is stressed throughout the book and in the concluding checklists, which guide the practitioner through the design process, from initial idea through site maintenance and re-design.

Author : Sarah Maddox,Ryan Maddox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1937434001

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Confluence, Tech Comm, Chocolate by Sarah Maddox,Ryan Maddox Pdf

Takes you inside Confluence wiki for an in-depth guide to developing and publishing technical documentation on a wiki. While the book focuses on Confluence, the concepts and strategies apply to any wiki.