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Re: What information needs to be in a Technical Manual?
Subject:Re: What information needs to be in a Technical Manual? From:Andrew Plato <gilliankitty -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 7 Jul 2004 09:30:03 -0700 (PDT)
"Nadine Underwood" <> wrote ...
> I have been tasked with creating a Technical Manual for a web hosted
> application. All of my experience is in User Guides / System Admin
> Guides etc. I have little experience, if any, in writing technical
> documentation for technical users. Does anyone have any pointers on the
> topics it should contain etc etc. Any guidance would be gratefully
> received.
You need to Answer the 5 Golden Questions about the product you're documenting:
What is this?
What is its purpose?
Why is designed this way?
Where are the dependencies?
How does it work?
Work on having complete answers for those questions. Then you'll be prepared to
write the manual. You won't need help on the topics, they'll be obvious.
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