Recommended Books for Technical Communications

Title and author are indicated

The Chicago Manual of Style. 15th ed.
The University of Chicago Press

The Mayfield Handbook or Technical & Scientific Writing
Perelman, Paradis, Barret

Developing Quality Technical Information
Hargis, Carey, Hernandez, Hughes, Longo, Rouiller, Wilde

The Non-Designer's Design Book
Williams

Manual of Style for Technical Publications. 3rd ed.
Microsoft Corporation

The Elements of Style and How to Speak and Write Correctly
Strunk and Devlin

Effective Writing. 2nd ed.
Turk and Kirkman

Newton's Telecom Dictonary 22nd Edition
Harry Newton

Read Me First!: A Style Guide for the Computer Industry
Sun

Word 2007 Step by Step
Cox and Preppernau

Technical Writing 101
O'Keefe and Pringle

Single Sourcing, Building Modular Documentation
Ament

Recommended Websites for Technical Communications

The Science of Scientific Writing
Explains in great detail what makes writing clear. Its content may surprise you, but these techniques are essential for being understood.

http://www.dictionary.com and http://www.thesaurus.com
Online dictionary and thesaurus

Detailed technical background information on 4 million topics
While you may be able to rely on the architect or programmer for technicalprecision, this is not necessarily true of the marketing staff or even the product manager. A quick visit to answers.com will provide detailed technical background information on just about any topic imaginable, especially in the areas of information technology, communications, and computers.

The meaning of that acronym
Find out what any acronym, abbreviation, or initialism stands for.

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Chicago Manual of Style
The bible of the publishing and research community is now available on your desktop.

The leading IT encyclopedia and learning center
Contains sites on:

Telcom terms and definitions
Encyclopedia of telcom-related terms

Oracle Documentation

Oracle Technical Articles

Wikipedia’s Grammar Overview

English Grammar Terms

Guide to Grammar and Style

Common Errors in English

Microsoft Word (indexing)

Online Telecom Dictionary

Purdue University Online Writing Lab

Ask Oxford
Good resource for grammar and usage questions.

Wikipedia's US vs. UK spelling

Comprehensive Technical Dictionary

Technical resource for the telecommunications industry

Society for Technical Communication
STC is an individual membership organization dedicated to advancing the arts and sciences of technical communication.

Creating a Linux Manual (man)

Man pages (short for "manual pages") are the extensive documentation that comes preinstalled with almost all substantial Unix and Unix-like operating systems. The Unix command used to display them is man. Each page is a self-contained document.

Download latest doxygen

Doxygen is a documentation system for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, Python, IDL (Corba and Microsoft flavors), Fortran, VHDL, PHP, C#.