The Current Demand for Style Guides

During my research for a book project, I have found style guides in a wide variety of forms. Some are only a couple of pages. Others consist of hundreds of pages, delivered in ring binders. Some companies produce well-printed and bound books (for example, Microsoft and Sun). A lot of style guides, differing in quality and size, are in the Internet. Most of them cover the design of web pages; only a few deal with document design in general. From one company I received a multimedia CD containing their style guide. It is a well-designed piece of software, presenting graphic arts, sound and video.

Baumert, Andreas. TC-FORUM (1998). Articles>Style Guides

Formalism and its Impact on Technical Writing

Discusses briefly the work market for technical communicators and their careers.

Baumert, Andreas. TC-FORUM (2000). Careers>TC>Multimedia>Technical Writing

Maintaining a Curriculum

In 1991 the University of Applied Sciences (Fachhochschule) in Hanover was the first German academic institution to teach technical writing. Since then our curriculum has been subject to changes and it still is: Developing a curriculum is an ongoing process.

Baumert, Andreas. TC-FORUM (1999). Articles>Education>Management>Germany