Technical Writing for Teams: The STREAM Tools HandbookISBN: 978-0-470-22976-7
Paperback
264 pages
May 2010, Wiley-IEEE Press
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- Teaches how to lead a writing team as well as how to participate as a member.
- Provides both a practical subset of the standard editing symbols and a set of "correction codes" to provide team leaders with extra flexibility when reviewing drafts.
- Provides an exclusive set of "T-Magic" templates that help automate the process of document preparation and largely solve the problem of inconsistent formatting.
- Key concepts are illustrated through instructional videos.
- Draws upon MS Word’s reviewing features and outline view to help writing teams create documents that are unified in their overall approach.
- Demonstrates a set of procedures through which members of a team can all contribute literature references to the same bibliographic database without duplicate entries, overwritten files, and similar problems.
- Shows how collaborative environments such as wikis, bulletin boards, and SharePoint can strengthen group processes and solve many team writing problems, including the very dangerous problem of version control.
- Removes the need to use LaTeX for complicated technical documents.
- Incorporates all the features in the forthcoming Word 2007.