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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
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Presents a collection of alphabetically arranged entries that provide information related to technical writing, including grammar rules and writing tips guidelines for brochures, feasibility reports, flowcharts, press releases, meetings, and other job- related topics.
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This is a breakdown of each of the NIST 800-53 security control families and how they relate to each step in the NIST 800-37 risk management framework process. It is written by someone in the field in layman's terms with practical use in mind. This book is not a replacement for the NIST 800 special publications, it is a supplemental resource that will give context and meaning to the controls for organizations and cybersecurity professionals tasked...
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University of New South Wales Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Good science writing makes us feel. It makes us delight in the discovery of a black hole munching on a star, laugh at the image of aliens puzzling over golf balls on the Moon, wonder at the mystery of the Spanish influenza's deadly rampage, grieve for baby shearwater chicks dying with plastic-filled stomachs, rage at the loss of the Great Barrier Reef and cheer for the clitoris' long-overdue scientific debut. This ninth edition of The Best Australian...
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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...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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"Twenty-seven of America's best science and nature essays of 2013, selected by the author of The Emperor of All Maladies and the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Gene. Pulitzer Prize--winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee, a leading cancer physician and researcher, selects the year's top science and nature writing from journalists who dive into their fields with curiosity and passion, delivering must-read articles from a wide array of fields. The Best...
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MadCap Flare for Programmers shows how Flare manages and parses content and how you can interact with Flare outside the user interface. It introduces the structure of Flare content files and Flare output files, such as HTML5 help, and shows how you can manipulate those files.
With more than 50 examples in languages such as JavaScript, C#, Java, XSLT, and Visual Basic, this book covers most of the ways you can programmatically interact with MadCap...
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The Language of Technical Communication has a dual objective: to define the terms that form the core of technical communication as it is practiced today, while predicting where the field will go in the future. The choice of terms defined in this book followed two overarching principles: include all aspects of the discipline of technical communication, not just technical writing, and select terms that will be relevant into the foreseeable future. The...
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The Web changes how people use content; not just content on the Web, but all content. If your content is not easy to find and immediately helpful, readers will move on almost at once. We are all children of the Web, and we come to any information system, including product documentation, looking for the search box and expecting every search to work like Google. There is no first, last, previous, next, up, or back anymore. Every Page is Page One.
In...
9) Blogging for Profit: The Ultimate Beginners Guide to Learn Step-by-Step How to Make Money Bloggin
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English
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If you want to discover how to monetize and profit from writing a blog and earn sustainable income to help you reach your financial freedom goals, keep reading...
Have you asked yourself the following:
- can Blogging be profitable and earn me money?
- what can Blogging do for me?
- will Blogging work long term?
…but finding it difficult to get the information you seek in order to understand blogging better and how it actually makes a profit?
Have...
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"Cómo Escribir un Libro Electrónico en un Mes: Pasos y Puntos a Considerar, Motivaciones y Creatividad," es una obra que consigue con asombrosa diafanidad potenciar en las personas interesadas en realizar una obra literaria, las habilidades necesarias con sencillas herramientas que permiten explotar el talento que subyace de forma anonima en las personas.
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It's a jungle out there...and in the cubicle. If you want to be a technical writer, or already are one, you have to learn how to survive in the field in order to move ahead. This work condenses 20 years of technical writing survival techniques and tips into an easy-to-read guide that will help you press that power switch with confidence. And it doesn't take an anal personality to do it. In fact, if you've got one, it's time to lose it. Survive...and...
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Do you wish to create and publish an e-book? Do you use a Linux desktop? Are you willing to learn basic reStructuredText? If you answered yes to all those questions, then this book is for you! In 5 steps, I will walk you through the process of creating and building an EPUB 3 format e-book, which you can publish on 15+ digital book stores, including Leanpub, Draft2Digital (Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and more), and Amazon KDP. To save you time,...
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Report writing skills are essential to success in your code enforcement career. Your notices of violation, letters, and reports are public documents that may be read by supervisors, attorneys, judges, citizens, design professionals, contractors, and reporters. Quality inspection reports and notices of violation help ensure code compliance, impress superiors, and win respect from colleagues. They facilitate repairs, reinforce requirements for safe...
14) The Complete Web Assistant: Provide in-application help and training using the SAP Enable Now EPSS
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The Complete Web Assistant provides a complete guide to the creation and delivery of in-application help and training content using the Web Assistant component of SAP Enable Now. The book covers everything from initial implementation, through configuration and customization, to the development and delivery of help content and courseware. It includes numerous real-life examples, along with hints and tips for making the most of Web Assistant's extensive...
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Not intended to be read from cover to cover, this book was designed instead to be a quick and useful reference for students, young engineers, and experienced professionals alike. It provides guidelines, advice, and technical information for preparing formal documents-covering a range of report formats (e.g. assessment, laboratory, and progress reports). This concise, no-nonsense guide provides alphabetically ordered and cross-referenced topics, which...
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Improved quality, risk reduction and better life, now is the time to change. Large enterprises are, challenged continually to meet the demands of today's ever changing market needs while still increasing quality. The impact to business reputation through failures in IT has never been so high. Challenges such as the pandemic hit, highlighting the need to change the way we worked, where we worked and with no notice to prepare for it at all. Given all...
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Welding Technical Communication explores the teaching and learning of welding through two narratives. The personal narrative relates the author's experience as a woman learning how to weld. The academic narrative draws upon scaffolded learning theory to examine how four welding teachers' verbal and nonverbal communication-their tutoring strategies and their gestures-facilitated students' embodied knowledge and enculturation into a community of practice....
18) DITA for Print
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As DITA has become more and more popular, demand has increased for tools that can provide high quality PDFs from DITA content. The DITA Open Toolkit provides a basic PDF capability, but nearly any real-world application will require customization. Leigh White's book, DITA for Print has become the go-to reference for building a print customization plugin for the DITA Open Toolkit. This second edition covers Open Toolkit, version 2, including customizing...
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A Practical Guide to XLIFF 2.0 introduces the OASIS XLIFF standard. Companies use XLIFF to standardize the exchange of source and localized content with localization and translation vendors.
You will learn how to get the most from the XLIFF standard, use best practices in your translation workflow, extend XLIFF, and use the XLIFF modules.
This book is for localization coordinators, technical writers, content management system vendors, localization...
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"Eyes on the Future" is a beacon of light guiding you through the maze of technological marvels and scientific wonders that define our era. It empowers you to navigate the complexities of our rapidly changing world, equipping you with the knowledge and perspective needed to make informed decisions in an age of transformation. Through its pages, you'll uncover the threads that weave humanity's dreams into reality, one breakthrough at a time.
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