Books, Journals, and Webzines

Any books, journals and webzines related to tech writing.

Facebook advertisers had access to private details

No matter who you talk to, online privacy is a big concern. For Facebook, these concerns are practically an everyday discussion topic. The discussion of Facebook privacy has reached a fever pitch. The latest reveal of potential abuse is causing serious concern. Large number of user information from Facebook could have been improperly shared with marketers. The way certain links were coded is at fault.

The Writers Block (TWB) releases The 1st Biennial Survey of the Technical Communication Landscape in India (2011 - 2012)

The Writers Block (TWB) releases The 1st Biennial Survey of the Technical Communication Landscape in India
(2011 - 2012)

MS-Word Macros

Find a Specific Word in the Document and Delete the Whole Paragraph Where It Located In

The following macro looks for a specific word (ABOUT) in the target document and when it finds it out, selects the whole paragraph where the word is located and deletes the paragraph. This macro is helpful mostly for story writers who, most of the times, come across this kind of context. Therefore Writers, Work hard on story theme but smart on content editing! What do you say!

Sub Word_Identify_Delete_Para()
Dim s As Integer
s = 0

Internet resources for technical writers

A compendium with several useful links arranged into categories. You may need to dig a bit, though.

http://www.soltys.ca/techcomm.html

Style Guides

Many companies have their internal style guides that their information developers use. Many companies don't - they prefer to operating flexibility and usually refer to the industry-accepted style guides. Some such style guides, and links to them, are listed below.

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