Literature lists
on
technical writing
Last data updates:
John Renish
: 1 February 2000.
Thomas Warren
: 2 October 1996.
Links to ZIP/UNZIP software
: 11 September 2000.
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John Renish's booklist
John Renish publishes by far the
most complete booklist within technical writing. The booklist includes books,
tools (incl. software), periodicals, and Internet references (newsgroups,
mailing lists incl. TECHWR-L, and ftp/html netsites). The list is at present
approx. 192 Letter landscape pages and a little more A4 pages, organised
as tables. For A4 printout of the books.rtf you need to reformat it to A4
Landscape (Files/Page setup), and then update the list of Contents (see next
paragraph).
Please
note, that the pagenumbers and the number of pages depends a little
on your printer driver selection. Consequently, to obtain a correct list
of contents, you need to update the page numbers in the list of contents
: e.g. in MS Word, click on the list of contents, press F9, and select "page
numbers only".
For additions to the booklist,
amendments, etc., please contact John Renish directly on
renish@earthlink.net.
The list is Copyright 1996-1998 John Renish. The copyright conditions
are included at the top of the booklist.
The booklist is updated from
time to time. Information about new updates is published on the TECHWR-L
list. You will also get a note about new updates if you subscribe to the
free UPDATE service
of this website.
The list is available in two
versions: as an RTF (Rich Text Format, readable by most word processors)
document and as a text-file:
- Download John Renish's
booklist now in RTFdocument format, readable by most text editors: books.rtf,
zipped as book_rtf.zip
- 291kB.
- Download John Renish's
booklist now in ASCII textfile format: books.txt, zipped as
book_txt.zip
- 182 kB.
To find software for unzipping,
click here
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Thomas Warren's Readings for "Graphics in Technical Communication"
Professor Thomas L. Warren is
the former president of INTECOM - the international umbrella organisation
for associations etc. for technical writers. His special area is teaching
graphics in technical communication, and he has now compiled an 11 page list
of books and articles on this subject.
For additions to the list, amendments,
etc., please contact Thomas Warren
directly on twarren_osu@osu.net. The list is Copyright 1996 Thomas
L. Warren.
- Download Thomas Warren's
booklist now in MS Word 6/7 document format: books.doc, zipped as
graphdoc.zip
- 18 kB.
- Download Thomas Warren's
booklist now in ASCII textfile format: books.txt, zipped as
graphtxt.zip
- 11 kB.
Links to ZIP/UNZIP software:
- PC users: Link to
pkware
for downloading the PKZIP shareware (DOS, Windows, OS/2) for conversion
of the compressed zip-files to normal files (or vice versa).
- Windows users: Winzip
(shareware) from Nico Mak Computing Inc. May be downloaded from
http://www.winzip.com/winzip/
and many other sources. Very user-friendly: integrates with Windows File
Manager (Win 3.x) and Windows Pathfinder (Win 95). May be combined with the
original PKZIP, ARJ, LHA and/or ARC software for even better performance.
- Mac users: Link to
ftp.dartmouth.edu
and branch to ftp://ftp.dartmouth.edu/pub/software/mac/.
Then download the Fetch 3.0.1.hqx freeware installer which includes Aladdin's
Unstuffit shareware. You can probably find it other places on
the net, too.
- Mac users: ZipIt
is a Macintosh program that zips and unzips archives in a format fully compatible
with PKZip for the IBM and zip implementations on other systems. Zipit is
shareware (US$ 15) and you can try it before you buy it. It can be downloaded
from http://www.maczipit.com
.
- UNIX and LINUX users
can download a shareware version of PKZIP from
http://www.pkware.com/shareware/pkzip_unix.html
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- PC, UNIX or Mac
users: The ftp://ftp.lm.com/pub/icc/tools/
ftp server offers "compression utilities for PC, Unix or Mac operating systems".
The tools available are for downloading and include include Stuffitlite
and unstuffit for Macintosh, Gzip, Pkzip, Binhex, and others (but
no unZIP for UNIX).
Go (back) to the
"User friendly manuals" homepage
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Go to the "User friendly manuals"
website's reference list
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