Hyderabad Technical WriterA blog for Technical Writing Tips and Tricks, Quick Reference Guides, Technology, Hyderabad, and India
Journals and Technical Reports and Papers
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/
A refereed online journal exploring the intersections of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy.
Technical Communication Online
Journal for the Society for Technical Communication (STC). Includes archive index, abstracts, guidelines for authors, and subscription information.
The Orange Journal of Technical Communication and Information Design
Strives to foster critical thinking and discussion on a wide variety of topics and issues important to [...]
Online Textbooks and Courses
Online Technical Writing
Online textbook written by David A. McMurrey and used by students in online technical communication courses worldwide.
Online-learning.com
Online courses for the professional development of technical writers.
Igetitnow! Training: Great User Documents
Offers a free, Web-based course as well as a collection of articles.
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Mailing Lists and Chats and Forums
Mailing Lists
Yahoo Groups: xml-doc
A mailing list where writers, developers, product and service vendors, and others discuss the application of XML, SGML, and related technologies to structured authoring, particularly authoring of documentation for computer software and hardware.
Technical Writers of India
Mailing list with archives, events calendar, job search, and downloads.
Yahoo Groups: Tech-shoret
An e-mail forum or mailing list [...]
Directories
Dictionary.com: Writing Resources
Free online English dictionary and reference guide. List of sites writers can use.
Internet Resources
Sal Towse maintains a classified directory of links for writers: research, markets, writing exercises, writing for children, genre fiction, copyright law, newsletters, journalism, search engines, grammar, and editing.
Indispensable Writing Resources
Links to all sorts of reference material, writing labs, web search [...]
Career Outlook for Technical Writers to 2010
Article summarizes US Department of Labor’s “Occupational Outlook Handbook, Writers and Editors.”
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A Mixed Bag of Job Prospects for Technical Writers
A look at the new report recently released by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) by Joe Welinske, President WinWriters.
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How to change color in Adobe FrameMaker after the document was reviewed by the Editor
Assuming that you are new to Adobe FrameMaker and you are asked to raise an editor check for the document that you have prepared. The Editor reviewed and updated the document with the comments. For example, say in red color and sends the document back to you so that you can go through the comments [...]
Latest Author-it 5.3 release
The all new Author-it 5.3 comes with more innovation, performance, and style.
Yes, the latest Author-it 5.3 release is now available, which they claim focuses mainly on usability, performance, and innovation and consider it as their BEST release yet.
Author-it 5.3 includes… blinding performance improvements, slick new Web Help publishing templates, new and improved dictionaries, and the [...]
