http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Books/Rhetoric/Theory A listing of the most recently indexed works about Books and Rhetoric and Theory in the field of technical communication. en-us Copyright (c) 2005-08 by the EServer. All rights reserved. tclib-editorial@eserver.org (TC Library Editorial Board) webmaster@eserver.org (Geoffrey Sauer) http://tc.eserver.org/images/newlogo.gif http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Books/Rhetoric/Theory http://tc.eserver.org/25684.html http://tc.eserver.org/25684.html To try and explain everything means to explain nothing. http://tc.eserver.org/14313.html http://tc.eserver.org/14313.html In the 1940's researchers at Bell Telephone Laboratories devised a model of the process of human communication. This model consists of numeous elements. http://tc.eserver.org/13728.html http://tc.eserver.org/13728.html In mainstream computer applications such as Microsoft Word for Windows version 6.0, one will find a User's Guide included with the product. This User's Guide is a primary manual. It is included with the software application. A visit to any large bookstore will also reveal a large number of manuals about Word. Called secondary manuals, these manuals are not written by the same software development company that produced Word, nor are they included with Word. Both types of manuals are produced by technical writers and in many ways are similar in scope, content and cognitive strategies. However, in other respects some primary and secondary manuals are quite different, and that difference is the focus of this thesis.