Microsoft Manual of Style

Microsoft Manual of Style
Author: Microsoft Corporation
Publisher: Pearson Education
Total Pages: 823
Release: 2012-01-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0735669791

Maximize the impact and precision of your message! Now in its fourth edition, the Microsoft Manual of Style provides essential guidance to content creators, journalists, technical writers, editors, and everyone else who writes about computer technology. Direct from the Editorial Style Board at Microsoft—you get a comprehensive glossary of both general technology terms and those specific to Microsoft; clear, concise usage and style guidelines with helpful examples and alternatives; guidance on grammar, tone, and voice; and best practices for writing content for the web, optimizing for accessibility, and communicating to a worldwide audience. Fully updated and optimized for ease of use, the Microsoft Manual of Style is designed to help you communicate clearly, consistently, and accurately about technical topics—across a range of audiences and media.

Read Me First!

Read Me First!
Author: Sun Technical Publications
Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2003
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780131428997

bull; The must-have reference for every technical writer, editor, and documentation manager bull; Provides all the information you need to document hardware, software, or other computer products bull; Written by award-winning documentation experts at Sun Technical Publications, Read Me First! is the most comprehensive guide to creating documentation that is clear, consistent, and easy to understand

The Global English Style Guide

The Global English Style Guide
Author: John Kohl
Publisher: SAS Institute
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2008-03-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1629590290

This detailed, example-driven guide illustrates how much technical communicators can do to make written texts more suitable for a global audience. You'll find dozens of guidelines that you won't find in any other source, along with thorough explanations of why each guideline is useful.

The Chicago Manual of Style

The Chicago Manual of Style
Author: University of Chicago. Press
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2003
Genre: Authorship
ISBN: 9780226104041

Searchable electronic version of print product with fully hyperlinked cross-references.

The Technical Writer's Handbook

The Technical Writer's Handbook
Author: Matt Young
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2002
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781891389214

The Technical Writer's Handbook is by a practising scientist who screens hundreds of manuscripts each year. It is directed at scientists, engineers and others who want to improve their writing and communication. It teaches that technical writing, although it has its own special requirements, is no different from ordinary writing and should be written with short, clear sentences and in the active voice.

Publications Handbook and Style Manual

Publications Handbook and Style Manual
Author: American Society of Agronomy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 102
Release: 1988
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Journal management and procedures; Procedures for monographs, books, and other publications; Preparing the manuscript; Conventions and style; Tables, illustrations, and mathematics; Proofreading; Copyright and permission to print; Publication title abbreviations.

The IBM Style Guide

The IBM Style Guide
Author: Francis DeRespinis
Publisher: IBM Press
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2012
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0132101300

Straight from IBM: complete, proven guidelines for writing consistent, clear, concise, consumable, reusable, and easy to- translate content Brings together everything IBM has learned about writing outstanding technical and business content.