Mamishev / Williams Technical Writing for Teams

The STREAM Tools Handbook
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-470-60269-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten, E-Book

A unique, integrative, team-centered approach to writing andformatting technical documents
Technical Professionals:
* Do you have difficulty producing high-quality documents withmultiple contributors when faced with a tight deadline?
* Do you need a process that enables global team members tocollaborate online as they produce sophisticated documents?
* Do you prefer the ease of a WYSIWG desktop publishing tool likeMicrosoft Word rather than more complex software like LaTeX?
* Professors and Graduate Students:
* Do you want to streamline the process of writingmulti-investigator papers, reports, proposals, and books?
* Do you spend a lot of time formatting documents instead ofthinking and writing?
* Do you write research papers in Microsoft Word and then need toconvert them to LaTeX for your thesis?
* Do you write research papers in LaTeX and then need to convertthem to Microsoft Word when embarking on collaborations with yourcolleagues from industry?
Undergraduate Students:
* Do you need to write a research paper and don't know where tostart?
* Do you need to collaborate with classmates on a long paper andfind yourself lost in organizational details rather than immersedin the content?
If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, TechnicalWriting for Teams: The STREAM Tools Handbook is for you. Itprovides an easy-to-learn system that streamlines individual andcollaborative writing, allowing you and your teams to instantlybecome more productive and create the highest quality documents ina minimum amount of time. Introduced here are the STREAMTools--Scientific and Technical wRiting,Editing, And file Management Tools--whichunlock your collaborators' potential and addresses team dynamics,separation of duties, and workflow. You'll see how to ensurecompatibility among multiple writers, achieve consistentformatting, organize content, integrate bibliographic databases,automate the process of document preparation, and move contentbetween Microsoft Word and LaTeX. Checklists, guidelines, andsuccess stories are also included to help you operate asefficiently as possible.
From planning and editing documents to solving common teamwriting problems to managing workflow, Technical Writing forTeams: The STREAM Tools Handbook is the one-stop reference thatallows teams to collaborate successfully and create unified,effective documents.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mamishev, Alexander

Williams, Sean

Über Autor(innen)

ALEXANDER V. MAMISHEV is an Associate Professor in theDepartment of Electrical Engineering at the University ofWashington, as well as the Director of the Sensors, Energy, andAutomation Laboratory and the Director of Industrial AssessmentCenter.
SEAN D. WILLIAMS is Associate Dean of the Graduate Schooland Associate Professor of Professional Communication at ClemsonUniversity. He is the cofounder of the Carolinas Virtual WorldsConsortium, and conducts research on collaborative writing, virtualteams, and technical communication.