Discusses a proposal's executive summary: its purpose, how long it should be, what should be in it, when it should be started, who should write it, and how it should be reviewed. (SR)

Describes a procedure technical writing students can use to test how concerns like segmentation, defining criteria, and paragraph structure may apply to finding an organization for their own texts. Essentially a heuristic, the procedure assumes that a number like three (a control number) is useful in organizing information for any kind of…

Through the process of writing and rewriting a committed voice can be recovered in which individuals are allowed to find out what they think, say what they think, and then stop. (HOD)

A diamond-shaped model depicts the researcher/writer's progress from problem definition through preliminary research and major research to the stages of consolidating the data, writing, revising, rewriting, and final production. (RL)

Discusses four basic categories of restrictions within which the video script writer works: purpose, time, budget, and resources. Discusses how these variables work together to force creation of a document that can be produced. (SR)

Follows brief preparatory comments with 12 sections (relevant to technical communication) from the "Analects" of Confucius--2 dealing with getting an education and applying for a job, 6 addressing one's approach to assignments, and 4 suggesting a professional code of ethics. (SR)

Notes that prescriptions for scientific writing about jargon and the passive voice do not take into account that language varies with rhetorical setting. Argues that prescriptions to avoid them are not well adapted to their functions. (SR)

Discusses kinds of jargon found in technical writing, how much jargon is acceptable, and the best way to handle jargon. (SR)

Presents an extensive bibliography of books, articles, review essays, and reviews published in 1993 on a wide range of fields with information relevant to scientific and technical communication. (SR)

Discusses how to get started in hypermedia, offering a springboard for beginning hyperdocument developers. Argues that the key is to transfer the familiar to the unfamiliar by adapting paper-document writing processes and by applying the appropriate, familiar page-design principles. (SR)

Presents an approach to document numbering, document titling, and process measurement which, when used with fundamental techniques of statistical process control, reveals meaningful process-element variation as well as nominal productivity models. (SR)

Intended as a series of hands-on, step-by-step lessons, this book presents instructions, checklists, exercises, and examples to guide people who work in business, industry, science or government through all phases of manual preparation from planning to research to writing, all the way to getting the final piece printed. The first chapter shows how…

Compares three approaches to writing the introduction to a scientific or technical research paper, as developed in the research literature--incremental, problem solving, and goal-oriented--including the advantages and disadvantages of each. (HTH)

Identifies and discusses the effects of single sourcing on the writing process. Provides suggestions for incorporating the teaching of single sourcing into technical communication courses. Concludes that educating students about the process of single sourcing is important if they are to become effective technical communicators in the industry. (SG)

Discusses how to make better indexes for online documentation. (SR)