Effective Documentation: What We Have Learned from Research

Book Overview

Effective Documentation is a major sourcebook that offers technical writers, editors, teachers, and students of technical communication a wide variety of practical guidelines based on often hard to find research in the usability of printed and electronic media. The book's eighteen chapters provide a wealth of material on such topics of current interest as the writing of design manuals, research in cognitive psychology as applied to the design of user...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262040980
• ISBN13: 9780262040983
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.3" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher