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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