Book cover for Technical Writing 101: A Real-World Guide to Planning and Writing Technical Content by Alan S. Pringle and Sarah S. O’Keefe. The cover features a green, blue, purple, and pink alternating square grid-like pattern. In the top right corner, blue text says, "3rd Edition covers Web 2.0 and DITA."

(Classic) Technical Writing 101: A Real-World Guide to Planning and Writing Technical Content, third edition

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To succeed in technical writing, you need a lot more than just writing ability. Technical Writing 101: A Real-World Guide to Planning and Writing Technical Content details the skills you need as a technical writer to create both printed and online content. 

This classic techcomm reference was published in 2009, so some links and information are outdated. The fundamentals covered in this book, however, are timeless.

Authors

  • Alan S. Pringle
  • Sarah S. O’Keefe
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File format: EPUB or PDF

This valuable reference describes the entire development process—planning, writing, visual design, editing, indexing, and production. You also get tips on how to write information that is more easily translated into other languages. 

You’ll learn about the importance of following templates and about how structured authoring environments based on Extensible Markup Language (XML) streamline the content development process. The third edition features information on the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) standard for structured authoring.

Topics include:

  • So, what’s a technical writer?
  • The technical writing process
  • Very necessary evils—doc plans and outlines
  • The tech writer’s toolbox
  • Getting information
  • Finally—it’s time to start writing
  • Writing task-oriented information
  • Visual communication
  • The importance of being edited
  • Indexing
  • Final preparation—production editing
  • Avoiding international irritation
  • Structured authoring with XML
  • Web 2.0 and technical communication
  • Getting your first job as a technical writer
  • Resources
  • Sample doc plan

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File format

EPUB, PDF

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