The Complete Guide to Writing & Producing Technical Manuals
Author | : Leslie M. Haydon |
Publisher | : Wiley-Interscience |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1995-06-23 |
ISBN-10 | : MINN:31951P005787688 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Technical writing as a career; technical manuals and handbooks; planning a technical manual; publishing systems; layout and format; manual writing style; preparing a manual specification; front matter and introductory material; illustration; table preparation; operation; maintenance and repair instructions; illustration parts breakdown; appendixes and addenda; amending manuals; preparing camera-ready copy; priting and binding; the technical editor; a technical handbook department; appendixes: capitalization rules; mathematical and scientific terminoly; using the metric (SI) system; numbers in technical manuals abbreviations; footnotes; punctuation; glossary of technical terms; bibliography; index.