Read Me First! A Style Guide for the Computer Industry, by Sun Technical Publications

By Sun Technical Publications

The definitive reference for technical writers, editors, and documentation managers, Read Me First! a mode advisor for the pc undefined, 3rd Edition,has been revised and up to date to hide every little thing from growing screencasts and referencing websites to writing for wikis.

This award-winning consultant to making transparent, constant, and easy-to-understand documentation covers every thing from grammar and writing kind to typographic and laws. The authors, who're senior editors and writers at sunlight Microsystems, proportion their broad adventure and supply sensible guidance and proposals, together with tips on hiring writers, operating with illustrators, dealing with schedules and workflow, and more.

The 3rd version of Read Me First beneficial properties new chapters on:

  • Writing for wikis and inspiring wiki collaboration
  • Creating screencasts, utilizing screencast terminology, and directions for writing narration
  • Creating substitute textual content for nontext parts equivalent to display captures, multimedia content material, illustrations, and diagrams

It additionally contains new tables for image identify conventions, for universal anthropomorphisms, and for universal idioms and colloquialisms. An up-to-date and multiplied prompt examining record indicates extra resources.

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Effective Writing Skills for Social Work Students by Philip Musson

By Philip Musson

This concise textual content is written particularly to assist scholars and practitioners hone their options and advance their talents by way of writing in a transparent, obtainable and, mainly, rigorous demeanour. There are sections on sturdy essay writing and the way to build a controversy, referencing and plagiarism, and reflective and significant writing. greater than simply one other learn talents ebook, potent Writing abilities for Social paintings is concentrated on genuine, daily perform matters and the complicated educational calls for confronted by means of social paintings students.

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The Progressive Era: Primary Documents on Events from 1890 by Elizabeth V. Burt

By Elizabeth V. Burt

Beginning with an intensive assessment essay of the interval, this e-book specializes in the problems of the revolutionary period via modern bills of the folk concerned. every one factor is gifted with an introductory essay and a number of fundamental records from the newspapers of the day, which illustrate each side of the controversy. it is a ideal source for college students drawn to the arguable and tumultuous adjustments the United States underwent through the business Age and as much as the beginning of worldwide battle I.

With the demise of southern reconstruction, americans seemed first westward after which in a foreign country to meet their appear future. alongside the best way, robber barons equipped railroads and oil trusts, populism burned around the prairies, foreign money went off the most reliable, immigrants poured into city components, and the U.S. received imperial outposts in Cuba and the Philippines. starting with an in depth evaluation essay of the interval, this booklet makes a speciality of the problems of the innovative period via modern bills of the folks involved.

Each factor is gifted with an introductory essay and a number of fundamental files from the newspapers of the day, which illustrate either side of the controversy. this can be a ideal source for college kids attracted to the debatable and tumultuous adjustments the USA underwent throughout the business Age and as much as the beginning of worldwide struggle I.

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Com escriure i presentar el millor treball acadèmic: Guia by Jordi Sancho

By Jordi Sancho

El treball de fi de grau (TFG) és el de més complexitat que fan els estudiants al llarg de los angeles carrera i el que demostra de manera clara els coneixements i les habilitats adquirits. Els blunders més freqüents en aquests treballs no són en els resultats o en l. a. metodologia aplicada; sinó en los angeles manera com es comunica l. a. investigació duta a terme. Aquest llibre dóna pautes i recomanacions in step with millorar l’escriptura i l. a. presentació dels treballs acadèmics, en especial els de fi de grau i de màster, i aconseguir una comunicació eficaç.

Jordi Sancho descriu els mistakes habituals a l’hora d’estructurar, redactar i exposar el treball; i explica pas a pas com millorar-ne l’escriptura i l. a. presentació, des de l. a. delimitació dels objectius inicials fins a l. a. defensa davant el tribunal. Aquesta segona edició incorpora, entre altres millores, dos canvis importants. El segon capítol es centra a orientar els estudiants en l'arrencada del treball perquè sàpiguen definir què volen aportar amb el seu esforç i es diferencien tres tipus de treball (de recerca, d'avaluació i de projecte) en funció del tipus d'aportació. Una altra modificació destacada té a veure amb los angeles revisió de bibliografia, que ara ofereix unes pautes clares consistent with cercar, analitzar i presentar l. a. literatura existent de manera sistemàtica.

Concebut com una guia pràctica, doncs, aquest llibre serà de consulta obligada consistent with a estudiants de segon i tercer cicle i resultarà de gran utilitat al professorat i a totes aquelles persones que vulguin transmetre amb eficàcia els resultats de les seves investigacions.

Jordi Sancho és health care professional in step with l. a. Universitat de Barcelona (UB) i professor de política social d’aquesta mateixa universitat. Llicenciat en ciències econòmiques i empresarials in keeping with l. a. UB i Màster en Anàlisi de Polítiques Socials Europees consistent with l. a. Universitat de bathtub (Anglaterra), ha estat professor de les darreres 15 edicions del Màster d’Estudis Socials Europeus Comparatius de los angeles Universitat de Zuyd a Maastricht i los angeles London Metropolitan college de Londres.

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In Other News: Reporters on Reporting by Stephanie Forshee,Rosellen Downey

By Stephanie Forshee,Rosellen Downey

You’ve learn a huge article.

You’re considering, how did the reporter do that?

Not each journalist has a mentor to depend upon. So we got down to clear up the secret of what it takes to be an effective reporter. find out how those reporters:

- achieve entry to specific politicians or agencies

- make certain which files demonstrate the main the most important information

- liberate a narrative over months to jot down an investigative series

In different information: newshounds on Reporting digs into the tales of 12 reporters who've labored for major information retailers together with The Washington publish, BuzzFeed, NPR, TIME, ABC, the l. a. instances, and extra .

These daring journalists percentage their own history, comparable to how they landed their first jobs and why they selected this occupation. additionally they demonstrate the reality approximately their most sensible work—how they exposed gemstones of news, the abilities that provide them their part in a very aggressive house, and different academic, inspirational, and motivational advice.

Finally, the reporter is the topic of the story!

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News: The Politics of Illusion, Tenth Edition by W. Lance Bennett

By W. Lance Bennett

For over thirty years, News: The Politics of Illusion has now not easily mirrored the political conversation field—it has performed an immense function in shaping it. this present day, the known information businesses of the legacy press are working in a fragmenting and increasing mediaverse that resembles a huge bang of proliferating on-line opponents which are difficult the very definition of stories itself. Audience-powered websites similar to the Huffington Post and Vox mix traditional political reporting with opinion blogs, megastar gossip, and different ephemera aimed toward getting clicks and stocks. whilst, the increase of great investigative corporations comparable to ProPublica provides but a special problem to legacy journalism. Lance Bennett’s completely revised 10th version bargains the main updated advisor to realizing how and why the media and information landscapes are being reworked. It explains the combination of previous and new, and issues to attainable results. the place parts of swap are essentially validated, key recommendations from prior variations were revised. There are new case reports, updates on previous favorites, and insightful analyses of the way the recent media approach and novel forms of info and engagement are affecting our politics. As continually, News provides clean facts and arguments that invite new methods of considering the political info procedure and its position in democracy.

 

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Tschetschenien, Jahr III (German Edition) by Jonathan Littell,Hainer Kober

By Jonathan Littell,Hainer Kober

Jonathan Littell conflict schon in den beiden Tschetschenienkriegen 1996 und 1999 für eine Menschenrechtsorganisation in Tschetschenien tätig. Seitdem gilt er als intestine informierter und scharfsinniger Kenner des Landes. In diesem Frühjahr 2009 hat er erneut diese zone bereist - entstanden ist eine ebenso beeindruckende wie beängstigende Reportage über die Entwicklung, die das Land seit Kriegsende und dem Regierungsantritt Ramzan Kadryrows im Jahre 2007 genommen hat.

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Corporate Storytelling: Theorie und Empirie narrativer by Florian Krüger

By Florian Krüger

Florian Krüger befasst sich in seiner Studie mit dem Erzählen von Geschichten durch das Public Relations-Management von Unternehmen. Dabei analysiert und diskutiert er „Storytelling“ als narrativen Kommunikationsmodus, der Mitteilungen in narrativer shape hervorbringt und so das Identitäts-, Aufmerksamkeits- und Deutungsmanagement von Unternehmen unterstützt. Seine those lautet dabei: Unternehmen benötigen neben dem Erfolg auf Finanzierungs- und Absatzmärkten auch ein erfolgreiches Kommunikationsmanagement auf öffentlichen Meinungsmärkten, wo sie in einem zunehmenden Wettbewerb um Aufmerksamkeit und Deutungshoheit stehen. Chancen eröffnen sich für Unternehmen, die eine gute Geschichte erzählen und so öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit und Zustimmung gewinnen können.

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New Playwriting Strategies: Language and Media in the 21st by Paul C. Castagno

By Paul C. Castagno

New Playwriting Strategies has develop into a canonical textual content within the examine and instructing of playwriting, delivering a clean and dynamic perception into the topic. This completely revised and improved moment version explores and highlights the large unfold of latest innovations that shape modern theatre writing, in addition to their impression on different dramatic forms.


Paul Castagno builds at the leading edge performs of Len Jenkin, Mac Wellman, and the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin to enquire groundbreaking new suggestions from a large diversity of latest dramatists, together with Sarah Ruhl, Suzan Lori-Parks and younger Jean Lee. New good points during this variation contain an in-depth learn of the variation of classical texts in modern playwright and the using new applied sciences, equivalent to YouTube, Wikipedia and blogs to create substitute dramatic forms.


The author’s step by step strategy deals the reader new types for:




  • narrative



  • dialogue



  • character



  • monologue



  • hybrid plays


This is a operating textual content for playwrights, offering a variety of illuminating new workouts appropriate for everybody from the workshop pupil to the tested author. New Playwriting Strategies is a necessary source for someone learning and writing drama today.

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