Includes examples that are easy to understand and adapt. Even those who don't adopt the entire procedure can profit from the parts.

Developing Quality Technical Information: A Handbook for Writers and Editors

Carey, Michelle

Longo, Deirdre

Rouiller, Shannon

Wilde, Elizabeth

Hernandez, Ann Kilty

Hughes, Polly

Literature & Fiction

IBM Pr

&amp;&gt;The Start-to-Finish, Best-Practice Guide to Implementing and Using DITA Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is today’s most powerful toolbox for constructing information. By implementing DITA, organizations can gain more value from their technical documentation than ever before. Now, three DITA pioneers offer the first complete roadmap for successful DITA adoption, implementation, and usage. Drawing on years of experience helping large organizations adopt DITA, the authors answer crucial questions the “official” DITA documents ignore, including: Where do you start? What should you know up front? What are the pitfalls in implementing DITA? How can you avoid those pitfalls? The authors begin with topic-based writing, presenting proven best practices for developing effective topics and short descriptions. Next, they address content architecture, including how best to set up and implement DITA maps, linking strategies, metadata, conditional processing, and content reuse. Finally, they offer “in the trenches” solutions for ensuring quality implementations, including guidance on content conversion. Coverage includes: <ul>
<li>Knowing how and when to use each DITA element–and when not to</li> <li>Writing “minimalist,” task-oriented information that quickly meets users’ needs</li> <li>Creating effective task, concept, and reference topics for any product, technology, or service</li> <li>Writing effective short descriptions that work well in all contexts </li> <li>Structuring DITA maps to bind topics together and provide superior navigation</li> <li>Using links to create information webs that improve retrievability and navigation</li> <li>Gaining benefits from metadata without getting lost in complexity</li> <li>Using conditional processing to eliminate redundancy and rework</li> <li>Systematically promoting reuse to improve quality and reduce costs </li> <li>Planning, resourcing, and executing effective content conversion </li> <li>Improving quality by editing DITA content and XML markup </li> </ul>
If you’re a writer, editor, information architect, manager, or consultant who evaluates, deploys, or uses DITA, this book will guide you all the way to success. Also see the other books in this IBM Press series: <ul>
<li> Developing Quality Technical Information: A Handbook for Writers and Editors </li> <li> The IBM Style Guide: Conventions for Writers and Editors </li> </ul>

DITA Best Practices: A Roadmap for Writing, Editing, and Architecting in DITA

Computers & Technology

Bellamy, Laura

Schlotfeldt, Jenifer

Graphics & Design

The #1 Guide to Excellence in Technical Communication—Fully Updated for Embedded Assistance, Mobile, Search, Multimedia, and More Direct from IBM’s own content design experts, this guide shows you how to design product interfaces and technical information that always place users front and center. This edition has been fully revised to help you consistently deliver the right content at the right time. You’ll master today’s best practices to apply nine essential characteristics of high-quality technical information: accuracy, clarity, completeness, concreteness, organization, retrievability, style, task orientation, and visual effectiveness. Coverage Includes <ul>
<li> Advocating for users throughout the entire product development process </li> <li> Delivering information in an ordered manner by following progressive disclosure techniques </li> <li> Optimizing content so that users can find it from anywhere </li> <li> Streamlining information for mobile delivery </li> <li> Helping users right where they are </li> </ul>
Whether you’re a writer, editor, information architect, user experience professional, or reviewer, this book shows you how to create great technical information, from the product design to the user interface, topics, and other media. <ul>
<li> Thoroughly revised and updated </li> <li> Extensive new coverage of self-documenting interfaces and embedded assistance </li> <li> Updated practical guidelines and checklists </li> <li> Hundreds of new examples </li> </ul>

Developing Quality Technical Information: A Handbook for Writers and Editors (IBM Press)

Lanyi, Moira

Radzinski, Eric

Programming

Ibm Press

Something Borrowed

Romance

Paranormal

Independently published

What Happened at Maryland State University

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

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