Technical document writing

Author: [US] Shirley Lindey Roberts, translated by Liu Shuhua and others
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: Whether you are engaged in technical professional writing or just starting a technical document writing project, this book will provide you with essential help to improve your technical document writing skills. Shirley Lindey Roberts guides you step by step on how to brainstorm, how to express clearly, and how to create technical documents. Her methods are not only applicable to written expression but also to online help systems. All technical professionals are required to write technical documents at some stage in their careers, so your career development depends on your writing ability and your ability to clearly demonstrate your knowledge. This book will be very beneficial to you if you are an engineer, scientist, computer programmer, or IT expert. You work in any other technical field. You are a technical professional document writer. You are a college student about to enter the technical field. You are one of those who don’t know how to start writing technical documents. Not all companies are willing to hire technical document writers, so technical professionals have to work hard to write their own technical documents. Although this book won’t teach you the secrets of writing success, it will guide you to easily understand the mysteries of technical document writing, including both written and electronic documents. This book is also suitable for technical professional document writers. Technical professional document writers come from all walks of life: teachers, musicians, journalists, scientists, and so on. Technical document writing is widely used in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America, so whether you are a technical professional who needs to develop your career through technical document writing or a technical professional document writer who wants to improve your skills, you will find that this book plays an invaluable role in the development and survival of your career. In the internet era, what we should focus on is the future of history, so this book is not about software and its applications but about strategy, which is the skill you need to write technical documents that have an impact on your readers. Although technology does not change rapidly, even the most complex software will not produce high-quality technical documents without a writer. High-quality technical documents are the result of the writer. For example, if legendary writers like Shakespeare, Chaucer, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, and Longfellow had computers, would they have been more successful? Of course not. They succeeded because they mastered writing skills. "Dummies Series: Technical Document Writing" will help you master and develop your writing skills. In every "Dummies" book I’ve written, I use an interesting introductory quote to start each chapter, so each chapter begins with a technical quote from a saint of a different era. When you read them, you’ll shake your head, frown, and think about their thoughts.