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Title: Untechnical Writing - How to Write About Technical Subjects and Products So Anyone Can Understand by Michael Bremer ISBN: 0-9669949-0-6 Publisher: Untechnical Pr Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.12 (16 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Helps you to understand the process of technical writing
Comment: I recently finished the book UnTechnical Writing by Michael Bremer. This is a quirky book for technical writers, and focuses on how to make your technical writing "readable" by untechnical people. Bremer has done a lot of writing for software such as The Sims, so he knows his craft. He also is involved in filmmaking, so you can guess he brings a lot of creativity into his writing.
I liked this book a lot. The tone of the book is conversational, replete with interesting quotes related to the subject of writing. While the book isn't one that will "teach" you how to write, it will help hone your technical writing skills such that you can effectively communicate to a non-technical readership. All too often, technical writers write for other techies. This may be fine if that's the audience, but usually it's not.
Another feature of this book is that it will help you understand the entire process of editing and layout. At this stage of my writing career, I can put words to paper and send it off to be "edited". That part is still a mystery to me, as well as what it takes to get a clean copy into a layout ready for publishing. After reading this book, I have a better idea of what others are doing to my original submission.
Good book if you do technical writing...
Rating: 4
Summary: How to be the Best Technical Writer
Comment: If there was a subsection in the "How To" category of books called "How to be the Best" author/publisher Michael Bremer's book *Untechnical Writing* would have a true home.
Chock-full of insider tips and insights, the book is testament to its author's years as a writer, editor, manager, technical guru, and all-around "computer geek" nice guy.
Demystifying technical writing in itself and enlisting the reader's own intelligence and practicality, the book outlines how to not only do a technical job well but to do it in the smartest way possible. Invaluable!
Rating: 2
Summary: Superficial
Comment: Sorry, but this is too superficial for most users. I have been looking for some type of technical writing manual for a group of people who need some training. This is a series of to-do lists with no how-to's. There is a lot of prose and how Michael Bremer likes to do things, but he writes as though everyone has the skills, and they simply need a refresher of all of the tips that are already on the internet. BTW - the author worked at Maxis which could explain why the cover includes a glowing review from Maxis founder. While I would like someone to buy my copy - it has no markings! - I can't really recommend spending the money.
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Title: The User Manual Manual : How to Research, Write, Test, Edit & Produce a Software by Michael Bremer ISBN: 0966994914 Publisher: Untechnical Pr Pub. Date: 20 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Elements of Technical Writing by Gary Blake, Robert W. Bly ISBN: 0020130856 Publisher: Pearson Higher Education Pub. Date: 19 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Technical Writing by Krista Van Laan, Catherine Julian, JoAnn Hackos ISBN: 0028641469 Publisher: Alpha Books Pub. Date: 15 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Handbook of Technical Writing, Seventh Edition by Gerald J. Alred, Charles T. Brusaw, Walter E. Oliu ISBN: 0312309236 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 14 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $38.95 |
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Title: Technical Writing for Dummies by Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts ISBN: 0764553089 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 15 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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