Geoffrey Marnell

Essays on Technical Writing

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A wide-ranging collection of essays covering a multitude of topics: from how best to write technical documents for an international audience to can readability be measured. In the mix is a discussion on structured authoring, why human-generated indexes are important, ethical obligations on technical writers and manufacturers of goods, and much more.

This book is aimed at academics and practitioners of technical writing, and anyone whose employment requires them to write technical documents.
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282 printed pages
Original publication
2015
Publication year
2015
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  • احمد خاطرhas quoted3 years ago
    Second, the risk of mental harm. A person’s self-esteem, and general mental wellbeing, can be affected by the degree of confidence they have in their ability to understand the written material they need to understand. For example, a young apprentice having difficulty understanding operating instructions may give up their chosen trade because of a mistaken belief that they do not have the intelligence to succeed in it. Mistaken? If their difficulty arises not from poor language skills on their part but from carelessness on the part of the writer of those instructions, then the apprentice’s belief that they are not up to it might very well be mistaken. Their chosen career might be denied them by the thoughtlessness or laziness of writers who have provided them with vague or impenetrable instructions.
  • Маргарита Половецhas quoted6 years ago
    End-user assistance professional
  • Маргарита Половецhas quoted6 years ago
    And thus instead of technical writer we have technical communicator, content provider, end-user assistance professional, information designer, documentation developer, documenter, and so on.

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