Technical Writing: WWW Resources

General

• Yahoo's Technical Writing Links

• Online Resources for Technical Communicators (Lawrence J. Clark) -- Includes links to online journals and magazines, resume writing resources, and more.

• Yahoo: Magazines

• Technical Writing Student Projects (UW-Stout) -- from 1996

• WritersNet -- Searchable directory of published writers on the Internet.

• Society for Technical Communication -- Organization "devoted to advancing the arts and sciences of technical communication"

• U.S. Government, Office of Scientific and Technical Information (Dept. of Energy) -- See their "Information and Resources" section.

• Keith Soltys' Usenet, FTP, and WWW Sites for Technical Writing -- Needs updating, and a bit unorganized, but does have a nice starting list.

• Infoseek's Technical Writing Links -- Includes dictionaries, thesauri, organizational web sites, and more

• Purdue Online Writing Lab: Business & Professional Writing

• Art of Writing: Writing Links Galore -- Links to various writer's help resources on the Internet.

Reference Sources

• Yahoo's Reference Links -- Dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, and more.

• Hypertext Websters Dictionary

• Roget's Thesaurus

• Synonyms Dictionary

• NASA Thesaurus -- To use the thesaurus, must click on "NASA Thesaurus (1998 edition)" and download the PDF file

Audience Analysis

• Suggested Audience Analysis Books and Reference Sources -- (Keith Soltys)

• Reader Analysis -- Brief explanation, along with links to Online Resources, Tools, and more. Uses a method of who? what? when? how? and why?

• Audience (SUNY Farmingdale/Technical Report Writing) -- Definitions and explanations involving audience.

• Advice regarding Audience and Writing as a process

For Fun

• Internet Anagram Server -- Neat resource!

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