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Developing Quality Technical Information: A Handbook for Writers and Editors

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Drawing on IBM''s unsurpassed technical communications experience, readers discover today''s best practices for meeting nine quality characteristics: accuracy, clarity, completeness, concreteness, organization, retrievability, style, task orientation, an...

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Product ID:9780133118971
Product Form:Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:US
Series:IBM Press
Title:Developing Quality Technical Information
Subtitle:A Handbook for Writers and Editors
Authors:Author: Deirdre Longo, Shannon Rouiller, Moira Lanyi, Michelle Carey, Eric Radzinski, Elizabeth Wilde
Page Count:624
Subjects:Writing and editing guides, Technical writing, Desktop publishing, Desktop publishing
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Drawing on IBM''s unsurpassed technical communications experience, readers discover today''s best practices for meeting nine quality characteristics: accuracy, clarity, completeness, concreteness, organization, retrievability, style, task orientation, and visual effectiveness. Packed with guidelines, checklists, and before-and-after examples, Developing Quality Technical Information, Third Edition is an indispensable resource for the future of technical communication.


The #1 Guide to Excellence in Technical Communication—Fully Updated for Embedded Assistance, Mobile, Search, Multimedia, and More

 

Direct from IBM’s own content design experts, this guide shows you how to design product interfaces and technical information that always place users front and center. This edition has been fully revised to help you consistently deliver the right content at the right time.

 

You’ll master today’s best practices to apply nine essential characteristics of high-quality technical information: accuracy, clarity, completeness, concreteness, organization, retrievability, style, task orientation, and visual effectiveness.

 

Coverage Includes

  • Advocating for users throughout the entire product development process
  • Delivering information in an ordered manner by following progressive disclosure techniques
  • Optimizing content so that users can find it from anywhere
  • Streamlining information for mobile delivery
  • Helping users right where they are

Whether you’re a writer, editor, information architect, user experience professional, or reviewer, this book shows you how to create great technical information, from the product design to the user interface, topics, and other media.

  • Thoroughly revised and updated
  • Extensive new coverage of self-documenting interfaces and embedded assistance
  • Updated practical guidelines and checklists
  • Hundreds of new examples

 

 


Imprint Name:IBM Press
Publisher Name:Pearson Education (US)
Country of Publication:GB
Publishing Date:2014-07-10