As the cyberculture field develops toward being a discipline, thoughts of a disciplinary canon are perhaps inevitable.
Eliot, Matthew J. AoIR (2003). Resources>Bibliographies>Cyberculture
What follows is a selected bibliography on document design. It is not exhaustive. Please feel free to add to it by contacting me.
Doing Research With Internet Texts: A Brief Bibliography
A brief bibliography of works on Internet and cyberspace culture.
Gurak, Laura J. University of Minnesota (2000). Resources>Bibliographies>Online
E-Commerce Usability and Trust 
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.
Egger, Florian N. EcommUse (1999). Resources>Bibliographies>E Commerce>Usability
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
University of Washington-Seattle (2001). Resources>Bibliographies>Software
These were the texts for English 5371, Fall 2000. Other readings came from our coursepack and are noted in the reading schedule below.
Baake, Ken. Texas Tech University (2000). Resources>Bibliographies>TC
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
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
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.
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.
Perlman, Gary. HCIbib.org (2001). Resources>Bibliographies>Human Computer Interaction
Graphical Interfaces To Support Information Search: An Annotated Bibliography
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.
Staley, Elizabeth. University of Illinois (2000). Resources>Bibliographies>User Interface>Search
Guides For Better Science Writing
A bibliography of books in science writing.
Indiana University (2002). Resources>Bibliographies>Scientific Communication
HCI Books: Bibliographies and Reviews
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.
de Graaff, Hans. HCI Index. Resources>Bibliographies>Human Computer Interaction
A bibliography of 847 citations in health risk communication.
Zorn, Marcia and Scott Ratzan. NIH (2000). Resources>Bibliographies>Risk Communication>Biomedical
Information Design: A Bibliography

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.
Albers, Michael J. and Beth Conney Lisberg. Technical Communication Online (2000). Resources>Bibliographies>Information Design
Investigations in Systems Design: Structure, Context, Failure and Usability
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.
Rhodes, John S. WebWord (2001). Resources>Bibliographies>Usability
Joddy's Visual Rhetoric Bibliography 
This is a working bibliography on visual rhetoric, visual studies, visual literacy, and anything concerning the image and writing.
Murray, Joddy. Morrismurray.net. Resources>Bibliographies>Rhetoric
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.
Renish, John. Peter Ring Consultants. Resources>Bibliographies>TC
Jonas Lowgren Interaction Design Bibliography
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.
Lowgren, Jonas. Interaction Design Association (2006). Resources>Bibliographies>Interaction Design
Knowledge Management: An Annotated Bibliography

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.
Jonas, Matthias. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2002). Resources>Bibliographies>Knowledge Management
Literature Database: Text Design and Writing Skills
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.
de Stadler, L.G., E. Basson, G. de Wet. Universiteit Stellenbosch Taalsentrum. Resources>Bibliographies
My Eight Favorite Usability Books
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.
Rhodes, John S. WebWord (2003). Resources>Bibliographies>Usability
My Human-Computer Interaction Bookshelf
An annotated bibliography of books in Human-Computer Interaction.
Lowgren, Jonas. Linkopings Universitet. Resources>Bibliographies>Human Computer Interaction
Online Documentation and Online Help
A bibliography that presents major works on topics discussed in the book Inside Macintosh: Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines.
Apple Inc. (1996). Resources>Bibliographies>Documentation>Online
Online Education Design: A Select Bibliography
A bibliography of writings about online education.
Mantex (2002). Resources>Bibliographies>Instructional Design>Online
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