Technical Writing Process: The simple, five-step guide that anyone can use to create technical documents such as user guides, manuals, and procedures

Bought this for use at work. I’m a Quality Engineer and had a document criticised unnecessarily and this proved my point. Good reference aid at work would recommend

Solid description of the process. The book does not offer any surprise techniques, but covers all the bases with solid, easy to follow common sense remarks.

Refer to this all the while. Really useful book

Very basic. If you've read a few technical documents before you'll not receive any new info in this book. If you can already write an okay document, this book won't help you get any further. If you've seen the front cover, you've got a large part of the contents. The best part of the book was the appendix where there's a couple of checklists. Flicked through the book in 2 mins and decided it wasn't worth reading.

Some technical writers are thrown into this job by people who assume we just take a Word document and copy and paste whatever people tell us we should do. This helps provide the tools to push for reasonable acceptance within your business of what you do, especially if you're a one person design, writing and publishing team like so many of us are these days. If you don't have a required form to use already, download the templates so you have a professionally designed framework ready to go. The last thing we all need is one more doc to design and present to others, even though that is what will end up happening anyway (you won't feel like you did as much work as you wound up doing anyway at least). After going through a few similar books at the library, this is the first one I encountered which I could forward to people to help them understand project management of technical writing, especially in an Agile environment where all tasks and projects are tracked.

So easy and simple to understand! I found this much more helpful than other technical writing books I've looked at and I recommend it as a great place to give yourself a solid foundation. The structure of this approach really worked for me. Thanks :)

This is a good read and provides a simple framework to develop a range of technical tools using a simple 5-step process. The process is supported by templates and written by an Australian consultant who refined the process in the field. The book is a good foundation for entry level technical writers or non-writers.

The content of this book is great. Informative, educational, and useful. But in the Kindle version, there are multiple sections of missing pages, which made for a very frustrating experience.

Very thoughtful and helpful guide