Re: recommended reading

[Jonathan Pechta <jpechta -at- weldtechcorp -dot- com>]

Don't bother with the book "Single Sourcing: Building Modular 
Documentation" by Kurt Ament. I own the book and consider it a waste of 
paper. The title should be "Organization and Data Chunking". If you 
company doesn't already use a style guide and you haven't ever developed 
one, this may be a bottom rung resource to look towards. The book is an 
outline of how to go about organizing and sorting your information to 
prepare for moving to a single sourced documentation set. Not 
recommended. Usefulness on a scale of 1-10 for most professional 
technical writers is a 1, maybe 2. However, if you've had issues with 
organization in the past in your documents, you may consider this book. 
Any technical writing book that reviews organization of information 
would be more recommended. If you are looking for that type of resource 
I'd review:

"Spring Into Technical Writing for Engineers and Scientists" by Barry J. 
Rosenberg.

Just my 2c.

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A.H. wrote:
> I was looking for some books on XML and DITA so I
> searched Amazon and come up with 
>
> * Single Sourcing: Building Modular Documentation by
> Kurt Ament  
> * Managing Enterprise Content: A Unified Content
> Strategy by Ann Rockley.
>
> Although I've read online articles and some of the
> threads on the list, I'm not really sure where to
> start. Does anyone know of resources, either online or
> in print, that I could use to get started? 
>
> My goal is to know the concepts that underly XML and
> DITA and the tools that now support them or will
> support them in the future. 
>
> Many thanks,
> Anthony Hernandez
>
>
>
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