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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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"""This book would be a great tool for fostering discussion in an introductory-level technical writing class, as it covers a wide range of topics from the name of the field (technical writing) to writign for international readers. The essays would be great starting places for students to learn that there is more to technical writing than just editing or writing manuals."" Laura Dumin, Assistant Professor and Director of Technical Writing, University of Central Oklahoma, Technical Communication, 216, vol. 63, no. 4, p. 382."

This book would be a great tool for fostering discussion in an introductory-level technical writing class, as it covers a wide range of topics from the name of the field (technical writing) to writign for international readers. The essays would be great starting places for students to learn that there is more to technical writing than just editing or writing manuals. Laura Dumin, Assistant Professor and Director of Technical Writing, University of Central Oklahoma, Technical Communication, 216, vol. 63, no. 4, p. 382.

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