Read Me First! A Style Guide for the Computer Industry

by Sun Technical Publications (Editor)

A book/CD-ROM reference for technical writers, editors, and documentation managers working on documenting hardware, software, and other computer products. Offers grammar and punctuation guidelines, typographic conventions, and advice of creating bibliographies and indexes, and covers how to document software running under a graphical user interface, creating international and online documentation, working with illustrators and printers, hiring writers, and organizing the review process. Includes checklists, forms, and tables of conventions. The CD-ROM contains the text of the book in searchable FrameViewer and HTML format. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Genres: Reference

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

Reviews

[Cindy Costley Baker · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book with practical advice for improving writing

[Sasha · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you just graduated from college with a philosophy degree and are starting your job as a technical writer at Oracle, run, don't walk, to buy this book.

All the other books I've read on technical writing are useless.

[Julie]

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