Tuesday, August 23, 2005

How to Write Good Technical Documentation

Microsoft training courseware and documentation in the UK

Technical Writers - Labor Market Information

Technical Writers: "Labor Market Information"

Technical Writing certification course - technical writers courses and programs

Technical Writing certification course - technical writers courses and programs

Writing Exercises for Engineers and Scientists

Writing Exercises for Engineers and Scientists: "Writing Exercises for Engineers and Scientists "

FrameMaker Add-ons, Plug-ins, and Related Tools

http://www.stc-carolina.org/sigs/frame/pdfs/plugins.pdf

FraneMaker Indexing Syntax

http://www.stc-carolina.org/sigs/frame/pdfs/FMIndexSyntax.pdf

Unfiled Training Structured FrameMaker Training online e-learning

Unfiled Training Structured FrameMaker Training online e-learning

Unfiled Training Introduction to Adobe FrameMaker Training online e-learning

Unfiled Training Introduction to Adobe FrameMaker Training online e-learning

FrameMaker Templates - Training

FrameMaker Templates

FrameMaker Training Programme details

http://www.corps.co.uk/training/course%20pdfs/FrameMaker.pdf

Adobe FrameMaker 7 Training

Adobe FrameMaker 7 Training: "Adobe FrameMaker 7 Training "

Monday, August 22, 2005

Autonumbering with RoboHelp and Microsoft Word (Knopf Online)

Autonumbering with RoboHelp and Microsoft Word (Knopf Online)

The Why and How of Article Writing

http://www.astdnorthbay.org/Articles/article8.shtml

Sunday, August 21, 2005

Resources for Technical Writers - A must visit!

Resources for Technical Writers

Brooklyn College: Technical Writing Certificate

Brooklyn College: Technical Writing Certificate - Course Syllabus

This link lists the course syllabus for:

Grammar, Usage, Mechanics for Technical Writers
Technical Writing Fundamentals
Graphics for Technical Writers
User Guides and FrameMaker
Technical Documentation with XHTML and CSS
Online Helps and RoboHELP
Researched Technical Reports and Proposals
Indexing
Technical Editing
User Guides with Microsoft Word
Starting a Technical-Writing Career
XML for Technical Writers
Business Communications

Brooklyn College Technical Writing Certificate: TW105 Online Helps and RoboHELP

Brooklyn College Technical Writing Certificate: TW105 Online Helps and RoboHELP

Writing Revisable Manuals

Writing Revisable Manuals

A fantastic resource on how to write manuals. A must visit for any tech writer.

How Do You Create an Outline?

Power Tools for Technical Communication

This article is on Finding, Narrowing, and Outlining Topics

Power Tools for Technical Communication: Headings Practice

Power Tools for Technical Communication: Headings Practice

Use this example to create practice exercises for creating headings. Take an article on popular science; remove all the headings and sub-headings. Ask the students to insert the right headings and sub-headings at appropriate places.

Create a variation in the above exercise by mixing (jumble) the paragraphs before asking the students to work on the exercise.

Power Tools for Technical Communication

Power Tools for Technical Communication: "Sentence-Style Revision"

History of Computing - Xerox Star Research

Xerox Star Research: "The Contributions and the Downfall of the Xerox Star"

Online Technical Writing: Online Textbook--Contents

http://www.io.com/~hcexres/tcm1603/acchtml/acctoc.html