In How to Communicate Technical Information, you will learn how to write printed and online computer documentation that is simple, clear, interesting and user-friendly. Technical writers Jonathan Price and Henry Korman map out easy-to-follow methods and include practical tips to help you create hardware and software documentation that is accessible to both beginning and experienced end-users. How to Communicate Technical Information: * Discusses easy-to-follow and user-friendly ways of organizing information. * Demonstrates how to use the art to communicate context, multiple options and results. * Offers new ways to present both quick start options for experienced users and installation instructions. * Presents effective new methods for supplying computer-based training (CBT), including sophisticated graphic and hypertext tours, and demonstrations. * Includes information on online help that suggests methods for integrating this feature into your documentation. Throughout the book, the authors share the techniques they present in their popular seminars as they provide straightforward and interesting ways of organizing information.Price and Korman also suggest practical methods for developing good writing styles. 0805368299B04062001
Jonathan Prise has taught hundreds of beginning and advanced technical writers how to create tutorials, procedures, and online help. He has written more than a dozen trade books and was a technical writer for Apple Computer, Inc. Dr. Prise has published articles, poems, and art in magazines rush as Arts, Esquire, and Harper's.
Henry Korman is a senior partner at ordPiay Communications. He has been a technical writer rince the early 80s. Mr. Korman is alsan architect whose innovative designs have won him severa) awards. He is an experienced instructor who has tught design at City University of New York and the Parlons School of Environmental Design.