Technical Writing 101: A Real-World Guide to Planning and Writing Technical Documentation

Technical Writing 101: A Real-World Guide to Planning and Writing Technical Documentation

To succeed in technical writing, you need a lot more than just writing ability. <i>Technical Writing 101</i> details the skills you need as a technical writer, and it explains how to handle the pressures of tight deadlines and ever-changing product specifications. This valuable reference also describes the entire documentation process—planning, writing, editing, indexing, and production. <P>This updated second edition features the latest information on single sourcing and a new chapter on how trends in structured authoring and Extensible Markup Language (XML) affect technical writers.