The Language of Technical Communication has a dual objective: to define the terms that form the core of technical communication as it is practiced today, while predicting where the field will go in the future. The choice of terms defined in this book followed two overarching principles: include all aspects of the discipline of technical communication, not just technical writing, and select terms that will be relevant into the foreseeable future.The Language of Technical Communication is a ...

This book is a complete guide to the operation and features of the Nikon Coolpix P610 digital camera. The book explains all shooting modes, menus, functions, and controls of this superzoom camera in clear language, accompanied by more than 350 full-color illustrations and sample photographs. This guide shows beginning and intermediate photographers how to capture still images and videos with the Coolpix P610, and how to use the camera’s many shooting options to get the results they want.

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The IBM Style Guide distills IBM wisdom for developing superior content: information that is consistent, clear, concise, and easy to translate. The IBM Style Guide can help any organization improve and standardize content across authors, delivery mechanisms, and geographic locations.This expert guide contains practical guidance on topic-based writing, writing content for different media types, and writing for global audiences.Throughout, the authors illust...

If you've been asked to get funding for a content strategy initiative and need to build a compelling business case, if you've been approached by your staff to implement a content strategy and want to know the business benefits, or if you've been asked to sponsor a content strategy project and don't know what one is, this book is for you. Rahel Anne Bailie and Noz Urbina come from distinctly different backgrounds, but they share a deep understanding of how to help your organization build a ...

If you are studying at undergraduate or masters level it's likely that you will have to write a dissertation, critical essay or project report before you can graduate. Unfortunately, many good pieces of student research and inquiry are devalued - and sometimes even fail - because they are badly planned, structured or written. Make all that hard work count! This new guide looks directly at the processes, techniques and objectives of writing the dissertation itself. It covers longer term asp...

Control of engineering documentation, sometimes called Configuration Management (CM) especially in the defense industries, remains critical to world-class manufacturing survival. The 3rd edition of this popular engineering documentation handbook improves upon one of the best blueprints for efficient EDC/CM ever published, and continues to provide a significant company strategy for managers, project leaders, chief engineers and others. It can be used in many industries to improve the contro...

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A Practical Guide to XLIFF 2.0 introduces the OASIS XLIFF standard. Companies use XLIFF to standardize the exchange of source and localized content with localization and translation vendors.You will learn how to get the most from the XLIFF standard, use best practices in your translation workflow, extend XLIFF, and use the XLIFF modules.This book is for localization coordinators, technical writers, content management system vendors, localization service providers, ...

Life as a freelance writer should provide you with a profitable career. As a blog writer, novelist, copywriter or any kind of freelance writer, this book will show you the path to a full-time freelance income within a month.I know as the book shows the path I carved to create a strong income when I left my full-time job in 2007. I often hear that it is a hard life as a freelance writer; only if you do not know where to look, how to pitch, or how to avoid those drea...

A wide-ranging collection of essays covering a multitude of topics: from how best to write technical documents for an international audience to can readability be measured. In the mix is a discussion on structured authoring, why human-generated indexes are important, ethical obligations on technical writers and manufacturers of goods, and much more.This book is aimed at academics and practitioners of technical writing, and anyone whose employment requires them to write technical do...

Maintaining complete, comprehensive, detailing records of every process or deliverable items is fundamentally essential to the efficient control of the work, to the achievement of all Company and Project objectives and to the management of the potential risks and opportunities that could be encountered during the prosecution of the work. Any company is taking a great risk if the Inspector, Supervisor or Leadsmen is unable to recognize that one of the greatest problems about the daily field...