| Professional Associations Professional Resources Legal Resources |
Design & Style Guides Reference Materials Articles for Technical Writers |
Books for Technical Writers Articles for Employers Journals |
| International Association of Business Communicators - IABC/Pittsburgh, a progressive network of communication professionals in one of America's renaissance cities. Through a variety of member services and benefits, IABC/Pittsburgh helps members share their talents, network with each other, and sharpen their skills. |
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Society for Technical Communication - STC is an individual membership organization dedicated to advancing the arts and sciences of technical communication. Over 23,000 members. |
| ASTD Pittsburgh - The purpose of this professional society is to achieve a better utilization of the human ability and potential in business, industry, government, the professions and education. |
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International Society of Managing and Technical Editors - ISMTE serves the academic, scientific, medical, technical, and professional publishing industry editorial office staff; providing networking and training infrastructure, establishing best practices, and study and report on editorial office practices. |
| The ELearning Guild - Community and Resources for eLearning Professionals. |
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International Society for Performance Improvement - ISPI is the world's leading professional association dedicated to Performance Improvement. |
| Association for Educational Communications and Technology - AECT is the association for Educational Communications and Technology. |
| Career Outlook for Technical Writers - US Dept. of Labor Occupational Outlook Handbook, Technical Writers. |
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An Introduction to EBooks - An article on Electronic publishing of books. |
| Guidelines for Writers in Electronic Publishing - A collection of guidelines prepared by several established writer's organizations. |
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5 Creative Ways Technical Writers Can Make Money Online - Here are five ways you can use your writing skills to sell educational products and professional services online. |
| Online Technical Writing - by David A. McMurrey, at Austin Community College (ACC) in Austin , Texas USA. |
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Technical Documentation: Pictures Worth a Thousand Words - Adding screen shots. |
| Accessibility Evaluation Resources - Multi-page resources that outlines different approaches for evaluating websites for accessibility. |
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Instructional Design Resources - Information about instructional design principles and how they relate to teaching and learning. |
| Copyright Basics - What is copyright law? |
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Copyright forms - Copyright forms. |
| Copyright Office - U.S. Copyright Office. |
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Independent Contractors vs. Employee - IRS Independent Contractor vs. Employee. |
| How to Form a Limited Liability Company - How to get the liability protection of a corporation without the overhead of W2 employment and corporate record-keeping and reporting. |
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Your Rights as an Independent Contractor - Contractor-centric discussion of basic legal issues. |
| Common Proofreading Symbols - A list of commonly used proofreading symbols used by technical writers and copy editors. |
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Basics of Scientific Writing in APA Style - Scientific and technical writing guides are useful to students who need to learn how to prepare a scientific document such as a technical report, training manual, thesis, review or an original paper for publishing.basics. |
| Style Manuals & Writing Guides - What is a Style Manual? A handbook or guide that illustrates the accepted format for citing your references in term papers, theses, articles, etc. |
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Writing and Research Documentation Guides - George Mason University Writing Resources. |
| Writing for the Web - A research project about how users read on the Web and how authors should write their Web pages (a study by John Morkes and Jakob Nielsen): includes downloadable files, tasks, and questionnaires to allow replicated or revised experiments. |
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List of Style Guides - Style guides are common for general and specialized use, for the general reading and writing audience, and for students and scholars of various academic disciplines, medicine, journalism, the law, government, business, and industry. |
| Writing and Grammar - Directory of writing and grammar resources. |
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A Non-Writers Guide to Estimating Writing Projects - A guide for estimating writing projects. |
| How to Evaluate Instruction - Evaluation instruction, including eLearning. |
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Online Dictionary - Features a complete dictionary and thesaurus for easy lookups, and it offers them in several languages. You can also improve your vocabulary with a "word of the day." |
| Refdesk - Indexes and reviews quality, credible, and current information-based sites and assists readers in navigating these sites. An incredibly useful site, with search engines, dictionaries, news, finances, weather, miscellaneous facts...you name it. You've got to check it out! |
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TechEncylcopedia - A comprehensive technical dictionary containing More than 11,000 definitions of computer terms and concepts. |
| The EServer TC Library - Experiments in community libraries--part library index, part web portal--for professional, scientific, and technical communicators (including technical writers). The goal of this website is to provide tech comm practitioners, students, teachers, and managers a single location from which to access the best resources available online. |
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The Technical Communicators Resource Site - A comprehensive resource for writers of technical publications, containing many links. |
| Career Outlook for Technical Writers - US Dept. of Labor Occupational Outlook Handbook, Technical Writers. |
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An Introduction to EBooks - An article on Electronic publishing of books. |
| Freelance Writer Rates - Get the Stats You Need to Create Fair Pricing - As content and inbound marketing continue to dominate the marketing landscape, the demand for great freelance writers only increase. |
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Articles about Technical Writers - Articles regarding Language, Document design, Online documents, Costs, Standards and laws, and Production. |
| The Elements of Style - by William Strunk, Jr. |
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Online Technical Writing - by David A. McMurrey. |
| 10 Key Things to Look for When Hiring a Technical Writer - Observing these key abilities will keep you on track. |
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When Should You Hire a Technical Writer - Your product is ready to ship! Wait, quick, someone write the documentation! |
| WANTED: Six-Figure Instructional Designers - Instructional designers with entrepreneurial experience, creativity and tech skills are highly sought after by companies. |
| Communication Journals - American Rhetoric communication journals. |
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Instructional Design Journals - IDT Journals |
| Technical Communication Quarterly - An ATTW publication that requires registration for access. |
