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The book presents a much needed approach to quality technical communication and a working plan for achieving quality. The examples are excellent and are easy to use and adapt. The editorial advice is simple and clear enough for tech writers who did not major in English or journalism. It is most worthy of a text in university programs, but it is more valuable to experienced writers, editors and managers concerned with raising the quality of their publications. The main difference between this and other books is that in each of the first nine chapters, one quality characteristic is presented that you can apply to your writing project to make technical information easy to use, easy to understand and easy to find. There are checklists at the end of each chapter for review and a Quality checklist in the appendix covering all of the characteristics. The book shows original text and revision text so that you can actually browse the book and see the differences applied. This is another excellent feature that should catch a purchaser's eye.
| ISBN | 0131477498 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9780131477490
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 1076 | | Publisher | Pearson Education (US) | | Published in | Armonk | | Imprint | IBM Press | | Series title | IBM Press Series--Information Management | | Format | Hardback | | Previous ISBN | 9780137903207 | | Publication date | 06 Apr 2004 | | Height (mm) | 235 | | Library of Congress | T11 | | Width (mm) | 178 | | DEWEY | 808.0666 | | Spine width (mm) | 38 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Tertiary education | | Pages | 432 | |
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| | | Contents | | | | | | Welcome | | | | | | Acknowledgments | | | | Ch. 1 | | Quality technical information | | 1 | | Pt. 1 | | Easy to use | | 15 | | Ch. 2 | | Task orientation | | 17 | | Ch. 3 | | Accuracy | | 47 | | Ch. 4 | | Completeness | | 75 | | Pt. 2 | | Easy to understand | | 101 | | Ch. 5 | | Clarity | | 103 | | Ch. 6 | | Concreteness | | 149 | | Ch. 7 | | Style | | 181 | | Pt. 3 | | Easy to find | | 213 | | Ch. 8 | | Organization | | 215 | | Ch. 9 | | Retrievability | | 245 | | Ch. 10 | | Visual effectiveness | | 277 | | Pt. 4 | | Putting it all together | | 329 | | Ch. 11 | | Applying more than one quality characteristic | | 331 | | Ch. 12 | | Reviewing, testing, and evaluating technical information | | 357 | | Pt. 5 | | Appendixes | | 385 | | App. A | | Quality checklist | | 387 | | App. B | | Who checks which quality characteristics? | | 391 | | App. C | | Quality characteristics and elements | | 397 | | | | Resources and references | | 401 | | | | Glossary | | 413 | | | | Index | | 425 |
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