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Mike says, "I'm looking to beef up my bookshelf as far as books
about general tech writing. So far, I have: <a couple of perfectly
fine resources>. What other suggestions for good books would you have?"
Search for "Karen Elizabeth Gordon" in the Books
category at www.amazon.com, and pick just about any of
her books. The best are:
The Deluxe Transitive Vampire : The Ultimate Handbook of
Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed
(ISBN: 0679418601)
The New Well-Tempered Sentence : A Punctuation Handbook
for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed
(ISBN: 0395628830)
Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness : A Dictionarrative
(ISBN: 0375401989)
The Disheveled Dictionary : A Curious Caper Through
Our Sumptuous Lexicon
(ISBN: 0395689902)
Torn Wings and Faux Pas; A Flashback of Style,
a Beastly Guide Through the Writer's Labyrinth
(ISBN: 0679442421)
These books are as much fun to read as they are
helpful.
Get a book on indexing, too. A weak index cuts the
usefulness of your documentation. I have Larry Bonura's
"The Art of Indexing" (ISBN: 0471014494), also available
at www.amazon.com.
Sara Magnuson
sara -at- zambeel -dot- com
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