Download or read book Writing and Designing Manuals and Warnings 4e written by Patricia A. Robinson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-five years ago, how many people were thinking about the internet on a daily basis? Now you can find everything, including technical and instruction manuals, online. But some things never change. Users still need instructions and warnings to guide them in the safe and proper use of products. Good design, clear instructions and warnings, place

Download or read book The Complete Guide to Writing Producing Technical Manuals written by Leslie M. Haydon and published by Wiley-Interscience. This book was released on 1995-06-23 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technical writing as a career; technical manuals and handbooks; planning a technical manual; publishing systems; layout and format; manual writing style; preparing a manual specification; front matter and introductory material; illustration; table preparation; operation; maintenance and repair instructions; illustration parts breakdown; appendixes and addenda; amending manuals; preparing camera-ready copy; priting and binding; the technical editor; a technical handbook department; appendixes: capitalization rules; mathematical and scientific terminoly; using the metric (SI) system; numbers in technical manuals abbreviations; footnotes; punctuation; glossary of technical terms; bibliography; index.

Download or read book Letter writing Manuals and Instruction from Antiquity to the Present written by Carol Poster and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once nearly as ubiquitous as dictionaries and cookbooks are today, letter-writing manuals and their predecessors served to instruct individuals not only on the art of letter composition but also, in effect, on personal conduct. Poster and Mitchell contend that the study of letter-writing theory, which bridges rhetorical theory and grammatical studies, represents an emerging discipline in need of definition. In this volume, they gather the contributions of eleven experts to sketch the contours of epistolary theory and collect the historic and bibliographic materials - from Isocrates to email - that form the basis for its study.

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Download or read book Writing and Designing Manuals and Warnings Fifth Edition written by Patricia A. Robinson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology is changing the way we do business, the way we communicate with each other, and the way we learn. This new edition is intended to help technical writers, graphic artists, engineers, and others who are charged with producing product documentation in the rapidly changing technological world. While preserving the basic guidelines for developing manuals and warnings presented in the previous edition, this new edition offers new material as well, including a much-expanded section on hazard analysis. Features Provides more explicit guidance on conducting a hazard analysis, including methods and documentation Offers in-depth discussion of digital platforms, including video, animations, and even virtual reality, to provide users with operating instructions and safety information Incorporates current research into effective cross-cultural communication—essential in today’s global economy Explains new US and international standards for warning labels and product instructions Presents expanded material on user analysis, including addressing generational differences in experience and preferred learning styles Writing and Designing Manuals and Warnings, Fifth Edition explores how emerging technologies are changing the world of product documentation from videos to virtual reality and all points in between.

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