http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Resources/Bibliographies A listing of the most recently indexed works about Resources and Bibliographies 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/Resources/Bibliographies http://tc.eserver.org/34484.html http://tc.eserver.org/34484.html The number of excellent resources that have come out since the beginning of the year on attracting links and building traffic has really mushroomed. Plus there are some timeless classics that are still very relevant today. I think it makes sense to compile the very best in one handy location and share it, so here’s my entire collection. If I missed your link and traffic resource let me know and I’ll take a look. http://tc.eserver.org/28346.html http://tc.eserver.org/28346.html A bibliography of books and articles about usability and user-centered design in the web design process. http://tc.eserver.org/26848.html http://tc.eserver.org/26848.html This annotated bibliography discusses over 120 print and online resources related to Web accessibility. It lists and describes resources that offer practical advice on how to implement accessibility, particularly in relation to the WCAG 1.0 and Section 508 standards. It also summarizes the findings of empirical studies that have examined Web site accessibility via automated tests, such as Bobby, and studies that have gauged user performance with assistive technologies, such as screen readers. The bibliography lists forums for discussing accessibility with other practitioners and researchers, and it cites sources for news and events related to accessibility. The bibliography concludes with a short discussion of trends in accessibility research. http://tc.eserver.org/26755.html http://tc.eserver.org/26755.html A collection that goes back more than a decade worth of design related books with such breadth and depth in the fields of design, communications, HCI theory, information visualization, and more. http://tc.eserver.org/26556.html http://tc.eserver.org/26556.html As I began to create categories for a list collected from many academics and practitioners, I discovered a dramatic difference in the works valued by the two groups. While some works were valued by both practitioners and academics, I also found a clear dividing line between works recommended by academics and those recommended by practitioners. http://tc.eserver.org/25448.html http://tc.eserver.org/25448.html A bibliography with hundreds of online articles about weblogs. http://tc.eserver.org/24067.html http://tc.eserver.org/24067.html A bibliography of several hundred writings about technology and the teaching of writing. http://tc.eserver.org/23534.html http://tc.eserver.org/23534.html The topics below are just some of the many possible topics for such a course. I have chosen some of the topics because they relate to my specific research interests, and I have chosen some of the topics because students have expressed a strong interest in acquiring more background in these areas. http://tc.eserver.org/23311.html http://tc.eserver.org/23311.html Toward a less artificial approach to professional writing pedagogy. http://tc.eserver.org/23298.html http://tc.eserver.org/23298.html A bibliography of writings about online education. http://tc.eserver.org/22983.html http://tc.eserver.org/22983.html A review of publications which employ qualititative research in the study of education. http://tc.eserver.org/22580.html http://tc.eserver.org/22580.html A bibliography of online articles about international issues. http://tc.eserver.org/22579.html http://tc.eserver.org/22579.html This annotated bibliography offers citations for people who are interested in learning more about international technical communication. This bibliography is far from exhaustive, but it is both growing and selective. I will add to this list as I have time and as I learn of new sources. http://tc.eserver.org/22479.html http://tc.eserver.org/22479.html This bibliography is organized to provide a structured introduction to graphical interfaces to information systems. Overview articles and 'classic' systems provide background on past work in this field. Systems with Demo Potential can be accessed via the Internet for additional study. Other systems of interest are included, with the more developed or unique systems listed first, and divided between 2D and 3D visualizations. Articles about user-testing or evaluating graphical interfaces are included, as are references to other existing bibliographies on this topic. Where possible, annotations include links to articles in addition to citations, the authors' abstracts and additional comments. Identifying screenshots of systems are included when available. http://tc.eserver.org/22358.html http://tc.eserver.org/22358.html This bibliography presents selected English-language articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. Most sources have been published between 1990 and the present; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 1990 are also included. Where possible, links are provided to sources that are freely available on the Internet. http://tc.eserver.org/22236.html http://tc.eserver.org/22236.html A bibliography of 847 citations in health risk communication. http://tc.eserver.org/22232.html http://tc.eserver.org/22232.html A collection of books and articles that address issues in risk communication. http://tc.eserver.org/22240.html http://tc.eserver.org/22240.html A bibliography of resources, both in print and online, in risk communication. http://tc.eserver.org/22241.html http://tc.eserver.org/22241.html This annotated bibliography of over 60 risk communication publications is divided into five areas. Links to the full-text documents are provided when available. http://tc.eserver.org/22048.html http://tc.eserver.org/22048.html A bibliography of style guides useful for technical writers. http://tc.eserver.org/21799.html http://tc.eserver.org/21799.html Members of ATTW refer to the bibliography because it 'focuses on resources specific to technical communication.' Several members noted that they find the paper copy easier to use than online databases; others use the pdf version found on the ATTW website. Members also noted that it is a good reference for graduate students. Several members pointed out weaknesses in the bibliography that the committee continues to struggle with. http://tc.eserver.org/21804.html http://tc.eserver.org/21804.html A bibliography on engineering communication assessment. http://tc.eserver.org/21586.html http://tc.eserver.org/21586.html R020 es un sitio independiente sin fines de lucro dedicado a la investigación y difusión en el campo de la bibliotecología y las ciencias de la información creado por profesionales de distintas especialidades. R020 está orientado al espectro profesional que en la actualidad se dedica al desarrollo de servicios documentales y de información. Es un espacio multidisciplinar y abierto al intercambio con especialistas de todas las disciplinas relativas al campo de la información. R020 es el resultado del trabajo en común de profesionales de distintas áreas y diferentes puntos del país interesados en la actualización y la innovación. http://tc.eserver.org/21085.html http://tc.eserver.org/21085.html The purpose of this paper is to briefly review and discuss three books related to systems design. The first book is Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering (Petroski, 1994), the second book is The Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition: Essays on Software Engineering (Brooks, 1995), and the third book is Notes on the Synthesis of Form (Alexander, 1964). In this paper, an emphasis is placed on describing the core ideas of the books. Brief discussions of structure, context, failure, and usability engineering are included to highlight several themes found throughout the trio of books. http://tc.eserver.org/21070.html http://tc.eserver.org/21070.html Below is a list of my favorite usability, human factors, and web design books. If I did not own these books, I would buy them. I find myself going back to these books again and again. A couple of them have been replaced because I've worn them out. These are the books that I recommend to other people all of the time. Simply put, if I did not have them available to reference and read, I would feel like my library was not complete. http://tc.eserver.org/20581.html http://tc.eserver.org/20581.html 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. http://tc.eserver.org/20146.html http://tc.eserver.org/20146.html An ongoing online index of twentieth-century publications in post-secondary composition, rhetoric, ESL, and technical writing. http://tc.eserver.org/20038.html http://tc.eserver.org/20038.html These were the texts for English 5371, Fall 2000. Other readings came from our coursepack and are noted in the reading schedule below. http://tc.eserver.org/20039.html http://tc.eserver.org/20039.html Effective technical communication relies on an analysis of the intended audience. If such an analysis includes the demographics of an audience, it is often primarily concerned with the level of the readers’ knowledge or how much the readers need to know in order to complete a task. Rarely is the gender of the audience taken into consideration, ignoring several decades of research on the different communication styles used and preferred by women and men. When gender is considered, writers often rely on prescriptive guidelines to avoid sexist language or, more positively, to use inclusive language to eliminate bias from their writing. http://tc.eserver.org/19906.html http://tc.eserver.org/19906.html In the 1997 bibliography, I’ve included all the categories of the taxonomy, even if the contributors have submitted no entries in a given section. Several users informed me that they prefer to see the entire taxonomy since doing so facilitates their research; thus it seemed wise to return to our original list of sections. This year, we have added quite a few new sources; all are noted on the list of works consulted at the end of this bibliography. We have expanded in the areas of health, risk, and environmental communication publications; we continue last year’s trend of fewer entries in editing, revision, and the general writing aspect of the profession. No new categories have been added. http://tc.eserver.org/19905.html http://tc.eserver.org/19905.html The ATTW Bibliography is at a point of transition with a new editor and a request from the ATTW Executive Committee to publish an online version of the bibliography on the ATTW Web site. In the next few months, the bibliography committee plans to focus on the design and content of an online bibliography. The goal is to build a bibliography that provides easy and up-to-date access to technical communication resources. http://tc.eserver.org/19904.html http://tc.eserver.org/19904.html The bibliography committee began the year with three goals: (1) explore the development of an online database for the bibliography, (2) survey members of ATTW at the annual meeting, and (3) continue to publish the annual bibliography in TCQ. http://tc.eserver.org/19903.html http://tc.eserver.org/19903.html Committee members since 1975 have reviewed periodicals and books for discussions of technical communication issues to build the bibliography to a significant resource for technical communication. http://tc.eserver.org/19902.html http://tc.eserver.org/19902.html Each year a committee of technical communication teachers and researchers review journals and books for work important to our activities. This year two graduate students joined the committee. http://tc.eserver.org/19655.html http://tc.eserver.org/19655.html As the cyberculture field develops toward being a discipline, thoughts of a disciplinary canon are perhaps inevitable. http://tc.eserver.org/19652.html http://tc.eserver.org/19652.html The compilation of bibliographies is at best an inexact science. Since the literature on scientific writing is both vast and diverse, I've tried to narrow this list down to those works which answer two basic questions: 'What are the distinguishing characteristics of scientific writing?' and 'How do scientists learn the norms and style of scientific writing?' http://tc.eserver.org/19397.html http://tc.eserver.org/19397.html This section contains information on books on HCI. Specifically, it points to the main bibliography of HCI publications, recommended reading lists, websites related to specific books, and announcements from publishers. http://tc.eserver.org/19362.html http://tc.eserver.org/19362.html The following resources address issues pertaining to usability testing of web sites and other technological media. http://tc.eserver.org/19050.html http://tc.eserver.org/19050.html Egger's research starts with a model of trust for e-commerce, then derives tools that designers can use to evaluate or design trustworthiness into e-commerce websites. http://tc.eserver.org/18923.html http://tc.eserver.org/18923.html A brief bibliography of works on Internet and cyberspace culture. http://tc.eserver.org/18870.html http://tc.eserver.org/18870.html Knowledge management is difficult to define because it covers a broad range of different areas and disciplines. Many authors don’t give a comprehensive definition because they emphasize “only one aspect of the complexity of the concept” (Wick 515). The following short annotated bibliography tries to put knowledge management in the context of technical communication, information architecture, and the workplace. This bibliography offers those who are novices in the field of knowledge management a starting point (hopefully) to learn more about it. The first part of this annotated bibliography discusses the topic knowledge management and the key findings I draw from my readings. I focus on the implications for organizations and the role of technical communicators and discuss knowledge management in relation to information architecture. The first part concludes with a short discussion about the items of my bibliography. In the second part, you read the short annotations of my selected texts that I find helpful to learn more about knowledge management. http://tc.eserver.org/18814.html http://tc.eserver.org/18814.html Guides and handouts in bibliographic database management. http://tc.eserver.org/18813.html http://tc.eserver.org/18813.html A bibliography of books in science writing. http://tc.eserver.org/18696.html http://tc.eserver.org/18696.html A bibliography of published books related to usability in website design. http://tc.eserver.org/18688.html http://tc.eserver.org/18688.html This list provides resources about web design, usability, and related topics. http://tc.eserver.org/18608.html http://tc.eserver.org/18608.html A bibliography of writings about universal design. http://tc.eserver.org/18376.html http://tc.eserver.org/18376.html A bibliography of discourse analysis linguistics sources. http://tc.eserver.org/18300.html http://tc.eserver.org/18300.html A list of links to Barnes and Noble pages for technical communication books. http://tc.eserver.org/18192.html http://tc.eserver.org/18192.html The EndNote cookbook is designed to help University of Washington students, staff and faculty with their EndNote questions. EndNote 4.0 is designed to: * create bibliographies (stand-alone or in papers) * store and manage a set of references * search publicly accessible bibliographic databases via the Internet, such as PubMed MEDLINE http://tc.eserver.org/18162.html http://tc.eserver.org/18162.html An annotated bibliography of books in Human-Computer Interaction. http://tc.eserver.org/15236.html http://tc.eserver.org/15236.html The study of visual communication is a multi-disciplinary, multi-dimensional effort. People who write on this topic come from mass communication (including photography, advertising, and news editorial areas), film and cinema studies, education, art and aesthetics, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, linguistics, semiotics, architecture and even archaeology. This rich melange of viewpoints is an asset because of the insights that come from cross-fertilization, however it causes some problems academically for those of us who teach visual communication because of a lack of any sense of common theory. This is not to suggest that there is or should be a central of core theory that organizes the field, however, it would be easier to order a curriculum, as well as a graduate program of study, if there were some notion of at least the important theories and scholars from the various disciplines that need to be covered. This project looks at the body of literature and the categories that emerge from the writings to develop a taxonomy of topics and some sense of the location of the most important, or at least the most frequently written about, areas of study. The objective is to collect the scholarly writing on the most central visual communication topics (mental imagery, visual thinking, the language metaphor, psychology), as well as peripheral topics that interweave with visual communication, such as sociology, anthropology, archaeology and architecture. http://tc.eserver.org/14985.html http://tc.eserver.org/14985.html A bibliography of works from instructional design and educational theory for cross-cultural and multicultural students. http://tc.eserver.org/14983.html http://tc.eserver.org/14983.html This list is composed of recently published books in the areas of management, organizational development and marketing that pertain to communication management. The list is organized in four parts: * Information, Communication Technology and Organizations * Organizational Culture, Change and Communications * Electronic Economy/E-Commerce * Marketing and E-Commerce http://tc.eserver.org/14970.html http://tc.eserver.org/14970.html Information technology has enabled organizations to generate and retain mountains of information. Unfortunately, many organizations suffer from 'infoglut.' They have the information they need, but they don't know they have it. Or, knowing they have it, they can't find it. We would like to find ways that information technology can support business processes, but to do this we need to understand how and where information might be of use within organizations. http://tc.eserver.org/14875.html http://tc.eserver.org/14875.html This bibliography was compiled with generous support from the Executive Committee of the STC Toronto Chapter. Special thanks go to Marie Tunbridge, Stephanie Copp, Roy Hartshorn, and Mona Albano, who shared their extensive listings with us. We welcome new additions to this bibliography! Please send all publication details (as shown in the list below) to the Webmaster. Thank you! http://tc.eserver.org/14836.html http://tc.eserver.org/14836.html Nedan har vi listat artiklar och böcker är releventa för dem som har ett intresse för organisationers kommunikation. Vi har delat upp litteraturen i följande kategorier. http://tc.eserver.org/14810.html http://tc.eserver.org/14810.html A bibliography that presents major works on topics discussed in the book <i>Inside Macintosh: Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines</i>. http://tc.eserver.org/14742.html http://tc.eserver.org/14742.html Three technical communication gurus answer the question, 'What is the last work-related book that you read, and how are you applying it to your job?' http://tc.eserver.org/14608.html http://tc.eserver.org/14608.html A short bibliography of English and Greek-language technical communication books and articles. http://tc.eserver.org/14599.html http://tc.eserver.org/14599.html Literature on Human Computer Interaction written in Russian. http://tc.eserver.org/14585.html http://tc.eserver.org/14585.html Educational materials on SGML fall into three broad categories. An evaluative abstract is available for each item on the chart. http://tc.eserver.org/14578.html http://tc.eserver.org/14578.html Welcome to a selected database on Text Design and Writing Skills. If you have any comments that might lead to the improvement of this database, we would love to hear from you. http://tc.eserver.org/14314.html http://tc.eserver.org/14314.html A collection of technical communication links. http://tc.eserver.org/14308.html http://tc.eserver.org/14308.html Zur Entwicklung seiner Anliegen nimmt IIID weltweit Kontakte mit Informations-Designern, Beratungsorganisationen und Forschungsinstituten, Universitäten, kommerziellen Unternehmen und design-fördernden Institutionen auf. Organisation des jährlich stattfindenden Symposiums 'Vision Plus' und Veröffentlichung der dort gehaltenen Präsentationen. http://tc.eserver.org/14190.html http://tc.eserver.org/14190.html Chauncey Wilson of BMC Software, Inc. has compiled this excellent list of resources. We are grateful to him for allowing us to post it here. To contact Chauncey directly, send e-mail to chaunsee@aol.com. This bibliography was last updated in December 1998. http://tc.eserver.org/14165.html http://tc.eserver.org/14165.html A bibliography of books about how to use and control Adobe Photoshop. http://tc.eserver.org/14106.html http://tc.eserver.org/14106.html The SIG bibliography includes all the resources listed in the Global Talk newsletter, Spring 2000 through Spring 2001, as well as additional resources. It was compiled in July, 2001. Items added since then are designated as 'added,' with the month and the year. http://tc.eserver.org/14059.html http://tc.eserver.org/14059.html What follows is a selected bibliography on document design. It is not exhaustive. Please feel free to add to it by contacting me. http://tc.eserver.org/14064.html http://tc.eserver.org/14064.html 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. http://tc.eserver.org/14024.html http://tc.eserver.org/14024.html Instruction in writing beyond the freshman level takes a variety of forms, all of which may be thought of as 'advanced' composition. One of the best established forms and one that shows all signs of continuing growth is technical writing. Although some teachers of traditional advanced composition may blanche at the comparison, I believe it helpful to take the relationship seriously. Technical writing is a form of advanced composition that relies upon well defined audiences and writer-roles, and that addresses itself to specific purposes found in industrial, manufacturing, research and development, and other bureaucratic and technological contexts. It is its specificity that makes technical writing distinct, but, like all advanced composition, its general function is to help students muster their linguistic and rhetorical resources to have effects on readers. http://tc.eserver.org/14011.html http://tc.eserver.org/14011.html A short bibliography of works in the field compiled by a librarian at SPSU in 1999. http://tc.eserver.org/13919.html http://tc.eserver.org/13919.html Identified in this article are 163 texts selected from a database of over 25,000 citations collected from five technical communication journals between 1988 and 1997. The texts—points of reference—represent the research, theory, and practice of technical communication. http://tc.eserver.org/13922.html http://tc.eserver.org/13922.html Many technical communication educators are exploring the potential of new and emerging information technology, specifically the World Wide Web, for delivery of their courses. This bibliography intends to help technical communicators explore the potential of virtual learning environments for their courses and to provide a point of entry into this burgeoning but rather unstructured field of inquiry. More specifically, the bibliography intends to provide a structured overview of approaches to conceptualizing, designing, developing, and evaluating virtual learning environments. http://tc.eserver.org/13817.html http://tc.eserver.org/13817.html This is a gateway to the bibliographic database on CSCW and related topics which is maintained at the Applied Informatics and Distributed Systems Group at Technische Universität München. The database contains basic bibliographic data, links to online versions of the references, and sometimes even abstracts or annotations. http://tc.eserver.org/13764.html http://tc.eserver.org/13764.html Many people interested in learning about usability testing have trouble finding an entry point into the literature of the field. This bibliography offers to help. http://tc.eserver.org/13703.html http://tc.eserver.org/13703.html This is a working bibliography on visual rhetoric, visual studies, visual literacy, and anything concerning the image and writing. http://tc.eserver.org/15027.html http://tc.eserver.org/15027.html Welcome to the home page of the Composition & Rhetoric Bibliographic Database project. Citations from journals and books in composition and rhetoric studies have been archived in both EndNote and Refer/BibIX bibliographic formats. http://tc.eserver.org/13523.html http://tc.eserver.org/13523.html Bibliographies which serve as companions to the two-part article by Reece which appears in the August and November 2000 issues of the <I>Journal of Computer Documentation</I>. http://tc.eserver.org/13476.html http://tc.eserver.org/13476.html Reviews of the literature have shown that academics and practicing editors and writers differ in their view of the editing and revision processes; furthermore, research (in progress) suggests that authors of technical writing texts have been slow to incorporate a process model of writing and revision into their texts, especially a model making full use of advances in computer-assisted writing. This demonstration is an attempt to improve teachers’ and trainers’ abilities to teach revision in a computer-assisted writing environment. http://tc.eserver.org/13081.html http://tc.eserver.org/13081.html This collection of recommended books for user interface developers is based on searches of The HCI Bibliography, a free-access online bibliography on Human-Computer Interaction. Over 29,000 bibliographic entries on books, conference proceedings, journal articles, and internet resources can be accessed electronically. http://tc.eserver.org/11920.html http://tc.eserver.org/11920.html This is a listing of works on quality that we in the Quality SIG feel can be of value to technical communicators. It is divided into several parts to help you find material on the topic that interests you. If the work has been reviewed in an STC publication, or if someone has a personal observation about it, we have annotated the entry. http://tc.eserver.org/10865.html http://tc.eserver.org/10865.html 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. http://tc.eserver.org/10501.html http://tc.eserver.org/10501.html This bibliography contains citations for over 7,600 articles and books dealing with issues related to rhetoric, composition, professional communication, and associated topics, such as linguistics, psychology, and philosophy. http://tc.eserver.org/10398.html http://tc.eserver.org/10398.html This bibliography consists of two parts, an annotated list of 17 essential works on information design chosen by members of the InfoDesign e-mail list, and a longer, unannotated, classified bibliography of additional works. http://tc.eserver.org/10328.html http://tc.eserver.org/10328.html 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. http://tc.eserver.org/10110.html http://tc.eserver.org/10110.html We hope that this online version of The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing will be an efficient reference tool. In the future, we will be able to update the online version more frequently. Moreover, we will provide direct links when possible between bibliographic entries and online versions of the resources themselves. Note that we include annotated listings for six online journals. To go directly to the World Wide Web page for one of these journals, simply click on the highlighted address (URL) given immediately after its title. http://tc.eserver.org/10111.html http://tc.eserver.org/10111.html A bibliography of writings in computers and composition. The citations come from Hawisher, Gail E.; LeBlanc, Paul; Moran, Charles; & Selfe, Cynthia L. (1996). http://tc.eserver.org/10049.html http://tc.eserver.org/10049.html A list of recommended texts for use in a research methods class, accompanied by brief reviews. The list was generated in a discussion on attw-l in February 2000.