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Ergonomics commonly refers to designing work environments for maximizing safety and efficiency.
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EServer Rhetoric and Composition
A collection of resources about writing, argumentation, and organizations related to professional writing.
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Essential Works on Technical Communication 
Presents an annotated list of 115 essential works on technical communication compiled from a list of over 600 titles from a wide variety of print, Internet, and professional sources. Constitutes what might be called 'essential literacy' in technical communication.
Alred, Gerald J. Technical Communication Online (2003). Resources>Bibliographies>TC
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Establishing a Corporate Style Guide: A Bibliographic Essay
Deciding whether to establish a house style guide can be a difficult decision for corporate writing departments. Management must decide whether it is worth the time, money, and energy to develop its own specialized style guide when various general style books already exist on the market. And if a company does decide to go ahead and establish a house style guide, what form should the document take? Will the guide be effective? What considerations should be weighed in determining whether house style rules should be established in a particular business? This article surveys several recent studies that can help answer these questions by examining such mediating factors as explanations of why and how a style guide can improve document quality and consistency to the strategies for developing the guide itself.
MacKay, Peter D. Technical Communication Online (1997). Resources>Bibliographies>Style Guides
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An example worksheet for generating TC job estimates.
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Ethics and Etiquette of Internet Resources
This document tracks online materials relevant to ethics and etiquette of the use and development of networked information resources.
Ciolek, T. Matthew. Ciolek.com. Resources>Directories>Ethics
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Ethics in Technical Communication: Copyleft and the Open Source Movement
A collection of resources about open-source software, innovation in copyright, and their implications for technical communicators.
Lannon, John M. Pearson Education. Resources>Intellectual Property>Ethics>Open Source
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European Union Interinstitutional Style Guide
One of the European Union’s vital tasks is to circulate and disseminate information in 11 languages. People are not generally aware of the scale and complexity of this task, and the ever-increasing amount and multilingual character of the documentation to be distributed, and it is only through continual development of the techniques used and constant rationalisation that the task can be accomplished each day. The Interinstitutional style guide has been produced with these things in mind.
European Union (2004). Resources>Style Guides>Regional>Europe
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eXchangeable Faceted Metadata Language
XFML Core is an open XML format for publishing and sharing hierarchical faceted metadata and indexing efforts. XFML Core is lightweight and easy to implement, yet uniquely powerful.
Van Dijck, Peter. XFML.org (2003). Resources>Information Design>Metadata>XFML
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Exercise Central is the largest collection of editing exercises available online that provide practice for mastering the skills of editing grammar, style, punctuation, and mechanics.
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Exploring Information Design and Development
Known to write a script or two to automate repetitive tasks like help builds, she also likes to write posts about XML-based information models like Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA). She often experiments with online help technology, enjoys writing blog entries, and wants to find new ways to use communication to help people understand technical solutions to complex problems.
Gentle, Anne. BMC Software (2007). Resources>Information Design>Documentation>Blogs
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Exploring Technical Communication
Exploring Technical Communication is a 30-minute documentary video introducing the profession. It consists of interviews with faculty and students in the University of Washington's Department of Technical Communication and with professionals in the STC.
Garrett, Mick, Paul Foy, Robert Frantzen, Charlie Selk and Erik Willis. EServer (2002). Resources>Multimedia>Video>Documentaries
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Wörterbücher, Glossare, Ausgangspunkte für die Recherche, weitere Links für Übersetzer.
Transline. (German) Resources>Language>Translation>Localization
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The EZSort tool helps interface designers organize information based on users' expectations using statistical cluster analysis. This tool includes two packages -- USort and EZCalc. The USort program can be used by card sort participants to sort virtual cards with a simple GUI interface, instead of using physical cards. It can also be used by study administrators to generate card list and enter existing card sort result from individual participants. Once individual card sort results are captured by the USort package, test administrators can use the EZCalc package to manage card sort data from multiple participants, and perform cluster analyses. EZCalc generates tree diagrams that allow direct adjustment of the cluster thresholds. The packages can be used in designing Web sites, program interfaces, and many other information design applications.
IBM (1999). Resources>Software>User Centered Design>Card Sorting
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Feedity is an RSS generator for web pages without a web syndication format. The goal of Feedity is to dynamically create RSS web feeds from such webpages. Feedity will take virtually any web page, and convert it into a fully formed RSS web feed. The RSS feed is updated in near-real time.
Nilkanth, Ashutosh. Feedity. Resources>Information Design>XML>RSS
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Fifty-Six Free Resources for Web Designers
The following is a collection of free resources for web designers. Whether your in need of advanced HTML tools or free fonts, you will find them in the following article, as well as resources for free wordpress themes, icons, templates and tools. You will also find a variety of tutorials to help you improve and expand your web design skills.
ReEncoded (2008). Resources>Web Design
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Findability refers to the quality of being locatable or navigable. At the item level, we can evaluate to what degree a particular object is easy to discover or locate. At the system level, we can analyze how well a physical or digital environment supports navigation and retrieval. This website is a selective, seriously incomplete, and perpetually evolving collection of links to people, software, organizations, and content related to findability.
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Findians Paradise: Books About Technical Writing in the English Language
The complete listing of books on Technical Writing has been revamped and now lists almost 1000 books on the subject classified by year of publication and dating back to 1961. There is also a section listing books whose dates of publication are not known.
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The home for Rick Turoczy's Flash and Powerpoint tutorials.
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A focus group is a focused discussion where a moderator leads a group of participants through a set of questions on a particular topic. Focus groups are often used in the early stages of product planning and requirements gathering to obtain feedback about users, products, concepts, prototypes, tasks, strategies, and environments. Focus groups can also be used to obtain consensus about specific issues.
Usability Body of Knowledge. Resources>Usability>Methods>Focus Groups
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Finding the right fonts and resolving font issues to properly display your content.
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Anstelle einer interaktiven Site-Übersicht finden Sie hier das Inhaltsverzeichnis mit Kurzbeschreibungen zu den jeweiligen Rubriken. Das ist für mich einfach besser und schneller zu pflegen und ist deshalb immer aktuell. Für Unterstützung in der Navigation, der Bedienung und der Suche können Sie eine kleine Hilfe aufrufen.
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FrameMaker Building Blocks: Using Building Blocks to Customize FrameMaker Documents 
Building blocks, like macros, allow you to enter information without typing it.
Scriptorium (2000). Resources>Tutorials>Software>Adobe FrameMaker
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This site contains links of interest to users of Adobe FrameMaker, the industry-leading tool for creating long or complex technical documents. Paired with Quadralay's WebWorks Publisher, it is also an excellent tool for single source solutions that involve some combination of print or PDF, online Help, and Web-based information.
Knopf Online. Resources>Document Design>Software>Adobe FrameMaker
