Magazines, books

[Patricia Bergsma <bergsma -at- LOCAMATION -dot- NL>]

Hi all,

Here is the requested summary of the advised memberships, magazines and
books about technical writing that I received:

Memberships:
STC (Society of technical communication), US
        Society's magazine: Intercom
        Society's journal : Technical communication
STIC (Studiekring voor technische informatie en communicatie), NL
        Magazine: Stimulans
        Journal : tekst[blad]
ISTC (Institute of scietific and technical communicators), UK
Tekom, Germany
ACM (Association for computing machinery) - SIG documentation

Additional magazines:
Journal of business and technical communication
Journal of technical writing and communication
Technical communication quarterly
Taalbeheersing (NL)

Books:
Dynamics in Document Design - Karen Schriver
Designing instructional texts - James Hartley
READ ME FIRST! A Style Guide for the Computer Industry - Sun Technical
Publications
HTML For the World Wide Web - Elizabeth Castro
Line by Line How To Improve Your Own Writing - Claire Kehrwald Cook
The Elements of Style - Strunk and White
The Chicago Manual of Style
The Handbook of Technical Writing

Various:
archives of TECHWR-L
http://www.stc.org - STC web site
http://www.acm.org - ACM web site
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (http://www.erlbaum.com) that publishes
books on rethoric and technical communication
Routledge (http://www.routledge.com) publishing similar books

On the Amazon book shop on internet (http://www.amazon.com) I searched
for books with the keywords "technical documentation" and got 42
replies. Keywords "technical writ" got me even more than 600 replies!

I hope this list can be useful for you too.

Regards,
Patricia Bergsma
Locamation BV
The Netherlands

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