| Communication and Media studies | |
| Communication Research Institute of Australia | |
| Resource index, Aberystwyth University | |
| Computers and communication | |
| Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication | |
| CMC Magazine | |
| Cybersociology | |
| Kairos | |
| Academic writing | |
| Advice on Research and Writing, Carnegie Mellon University | |
| Guide to Bibliographical Citations, LTI, Sheffield Hallam University | |
| How to organise bibliographical references, Shields and Walton, University of Northumbria at Newcastle | |
| Scrutiny of the introduction, Jon Claerbout, Stanford Exploration Project | |
| Thinking critically about World Wide Web resources, Esther Grassian, UCLA College Library | |
| World Wide Web search strategies, University of Wisconsin-Madison Electronic Library | |
| Writer's Handbook: Academic writing, University of Wisconsin-Madison | |
| Technical writing indexes | |
| Peterborough Technical Communication | |
| Technical Writing, J Nesbit | |
| TechComm mailing list, Hairydog Productions | |
| TechCommunity, Allyn & Bacon | |
| Technical Writing: Books and Reference Sources, John Renish | |
| TECHPROF, New Mexico State University | |
| Useful links for technical communicators, Peter Ring | |
| Writer's Resource Center | |
| Web-zines for writers | |
| Contentious | |
| Writer's Block | |
| Copywriting | |
| SmartBiz resource list | |
| Direct Mail, E-mail and Advertising Copywriting, I. Levison | |
| Database publishing | |
| Database Access Protocols, J. P. Ashenfelter | |
| Databasics, W. Horton | |
| Digital soup, A. Cooper | |
| Linking Web Databases With Cold Fusion, L. Chalnick | |
| Thinking and Developing Electronically, J. Wheary, L. Wild, B. Schutz and C. Weyher, Journal of Electronic Publishing | |
| Desktop Publishing | |
| Beginning with the end, J. Dornbos, Logic Arts Corporation | |
| The Prepress Production Process, PrePress Solutions | |
| Prepress tasks: traditional vs. digital, J. Howard Bear, About.com | |
| The Top Dozen DTP Don'ts, Mister Print Productions Ltd | |
| Editing | |
| Editing a Website: Extending the Levels of Edit, J. Price | |
| The Editorial Eye, EEI Communications | |
| Editors, Rules, and Revision, D. Haugen | |
| Excerpt from How to edit technical documents, D.W. Bush and C.P. Campbell | |
| Levels of edit, R. van Buren and M.F. Buehler, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology | |
| Levels of Edit Chart, Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of California | |
| Proofreading, Purdue University Online Writing Lab | |
| E-literacy | |
| E-literacies, Nancy Kaplan, University of Baltimore | |
| Electronic Literacy Homepage, Texas A&M University | |
| Social Informatics Home Page, Rob Kling, Indiana University | |
| Ethics | |
| Ethos: character and ethics in technical writing, C.P. Campbell, New Mexico Tech | |
| Information and Citizenship, G. Murdock, CRIA | |
| Knowing your rights, P. Roberts, Adobe Magazine | |
| STC Ethical Guidelines for Technical Communicators | |
| Technical Writers Code of Professional Practice (Hardware & Software Industries), National Writers Union | |
| Graphic design | |
| Great ideas on limited budgets, S. Garibaldi, Communication Arts | |
| Ten rules of good design, Part 1, Roger C. Parker | |
| Ten rules of good design, Part 2, Roger C. Parker | |
| What makes a good layout? GW Graphics and Publishing, Inc. | |
| Group work | |
| The Delphi Technique: what is it?, L.M. Stuter | |
| Leadership, S.O. Amusala | |
| Nonverbal Communication, S. van der Valk, University of Victoria | |
| Small Group Communication, Phu Vu, University of Victoria | |
| Human factors | |
| British HCI Group, British Computer Society | |
| FAA's Human Factors in Aviation Maintenance and Inspection | |
| HCI Index, Hans de Graff, Delft University | |
| Human factors and Ergonomics Society (US) | |
| Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | |
| William Horton Consulting Home Page, William Horton | |
| Human language technology | |
| Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology | |
| How to Pass the Turing Test by Cheating, Jason Hutchens | |
| Joseph Weizenbaum, Inventor of Eliza, John Tolva | |
| Parry, Jason Hutchens | |
| Talk back to your computer, IBM research | |
| The User-Friendly Fallacy (Hugh Burns' Topoi), Fred Kemp | |
| Hypertext | |
| As We May Think, Vannevar Bush | |
| Hypertext and writing: An overview of the hypertext medium, Kimberly Amaral, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth | |
| State of the Art Review on Hypermedia Issues And Applications, V. Balasubramanian, Rutgers University | |
| WWWeb Hypertext Style, Jerry Tutsch, ExecPC | |
| Information design | |
| Chaos, order, and sense-making: a proposed theory for information design, B. Dervin, Ohio State University | |
| Erik Spiekermann on information design: what is it? who needs it? MetaDesign | |
| InfoDesign, P. J. Bogaards and Y. Engelhardt | |
| Information Design Unit | |
| Information Interaction Design: a Unified Field Theory of Design, N. Shedroff, vivid studios | |
| International Institute of Information Design | |
| An Interview with Erik Spiekermann, K. Coupland | |
| Information management | |
| The Promise of Intranets: Expectations and Effectiveness, J. Gerstner, IABC | |
| Content Management Systems: Getting from Concept to Reality, C. Kartchner, Journal of Electronic Publishing | |
| Interface | |
| Design for interaction, R. Mullarky, Adobe Magazine | |
| Future interfaces, D. Tebbutt, IBM | |
| Get a memory, A. Cooper, Cooper Interaction Design | |
| Goal-directed Design, A. Cooper, Cooper Interaction Design | |
| Graphic Design for User Interfaces, D. Montgomery, Georgia Tech College of Computing | |
| Interaction Design Philosophy, Cooper Interaction Design | |
| Job interview skills | |
| Honing interview skills, Linda Musthaler, Internet Week | |
| Interview skills, University of California, Santa Barbara | |
| Knowledge elicitation | |
| The elicitation process, Norman Fenton, City University | |
| The Group Elicitation Method for Participatory Design and Usability Testing, Guy A. Boy, EURISCO | |
| The repertory grid knowledge elicitation tool, Simon White, Aberdeen University | |
| The open practical knowledge acquisition toolkit, University of Edinburgh | |
| Knowledge engineering, Middlesex University | |
| Knowledge management | |
| KM Metazine | |
| Electronic Collaboration on the Internet and Intranets, Collaborative Strategies | |
| Know what you know, T. Davenport and L. Prusak, CIO Magazine | |
| Using information technology to support knowledge management (executive summary), APQC | |
| What is knowledge management? K.E. Sveiby | |
| What is knowledge management? R.O. Barclay and P.C. Murray, Knowledge Praxis | |
| Mediated communication | |
| Information Ecologies, Nardi and O'Day, First Monday | |
| Learning to Write Together Using Groupware, A. Mitchell, I. Posner and R. Baecker, University of Toronto | |
| Telecommunications, M. Chandler, University of Aberystwyth | |
| Videoconferencing for learning, Pacific Bell | |
| Wordperfect: Literacy and Electronic Writing, C. Beegan, Lancaster University | |
| Metaphor | |
| The myth of metaphor, Alan Cooper | |
| Multimedia | |
| Dissimulations: the illusion of interactivity, D. Cameron, University of Westminster | |
| Multimedia Magazine, IEEE | |
| The Multimedia process, EEI Communications | |
| Weigh Your Multimedia, J. Muehlbauer, Webreview.com | |
| On-line working | |
| Computer Supported Cooperative Work Directory, Kjeld Schmidt, Lancaster University | |
| European Telework Online | |
| On-line group working, DJ Associates Web links | |
| The Online/Offline Dichotomy: Debunking Some Myths about AOL Users and the Effects of Their Being Online Upon Offline Friendships and Offline Community, R. Hamman, University of Liverpool | |
| Studying on-line social networks, Garton et al., JCMC | |
| On-line visuals | |
| Optimizing GIF Animations, J. Scott Hamlin, Webreview.com | |
| RealVideo: Waiting for Bandwidth, J. Rule, Webreview.com | |
| Plain English | |
| Communication and the Law, R. Penman, CRIA | |
| The Plain English Campaign (UK) | |
| Plain Language Action Network (US) | |
| Prewriting | |
| Invention (prewriting), Purdue University Online Writing Lab | |
| Problem Solving and Analytical Techniques, Mind Tools Ltd | |
| Printing and publishing | |
| A Critical Examination of Claims Concerning The 'Impact' of Print, D.L. Evans, University of Wales, Aberystwyth | |
| From Internet to Gutenberg, A lecture presented by Umberto Eco at The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America | |
| Manuscripts, Books, and Maps: The Printing Press and a Changing World, B. Jones, Dept of Communication, University of California, San Diego | |
| Promote Your E-Book, W. Butler, About.com | |
| This Familiar Strangeness: a Look into the Future of Electronic Publishing, W. Pepping, Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine | |
| Questionnaires | |
| Issues in Questionnaire Design, T. Fumento, Survey Research Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |
| Questionnaire Design: Basic Considerations, DSS Research | |
| Questionnaire Design, University of Florida | |
| Questionnaire Design, D. O'Brien, Georgia Tech College of Computing | |
| Reading | |
| Brief suggestions for increasing speed and effectiveness of reading, UT Learning Center, University of Texas at Austin | |
| A Comparison of Reading Paper and On-line Documents, O'Hara and Sellen, Xerox Cambridge Lab | |
| Learning styles, K. Hotta Dover, About.com | |
| Readers with Visual Impairments, A.R. Murphy, Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| Speed Reading, Mind Tools Ltd | |
| Towards a typology of reading goals, O'Hara | |
| Standards | |
| British Standards Institute | |
| International Organisation for Standardization | |
| ISO 9000 resources, ACE Ltd Web links | |
| Standards and the Law, About.Com | |
| Standards for Technical Communicators, Allyn & Bacon | |
| Typography | |
| Erik's Typo Tips, Erik Spiekermann | |
| Fonts: Tips and techniques for using screen fonts and specifying fonts in Web page style sheets, Webreview.com | |
| Microsoft Typography: Links, news and contacts, Microsoft Corporation | |
| Nearly my type, G. Fleischman, Adobe Magazine | |
| Typographic Voices, Mark Eastman, Communication Arts | |
| Web fonts: embedding, LettError | |
| We've come a long way, O.M. Kvern, Adobe Magazine | |
| Usability | |
| Ease of use, IBM | |
| h/c interact, Special Interest Group of the American Society for Information Science | |
| Usability Research, Microsoft | |
| Visual communication | |
| Our Changing Visual Environment, M. MacKenzie-Taylor, CRIA | |
| Diagrammatic Reasoning, M. Anderson, University of Hartford | |
| Gallery of Data Visualization, M. Friendly, Statistical Consulting Service and Psychology Department York University | |
| Syntactic Theory of Visual Communication, Part One, P.M. Lester, California State University at Fullerton | |
| Teaching How to Look, Ken Coupland, MetaDesign | |
| Visual Perception (Selected Lecture Notes and Transparencies), D. Chandler, University of Wales, Aberystwyth | |
| Web design | |
| Creating killer Web sites, D. Siegel | |
| Yale Style Manual, Yale University Press | |
| Web design, IBM | |
| Web page design for designers, J. Gillespie | |
| The Web Process, EEI Communications | |
| Web navigation | |
| A Web site is a public place, Journal of Design Science | |
| Dynamic Dueling, P. Morville, Webreview.com | |
| MAPA Product Overview: Full Strength mapping for the Word Wide Web, DynamicDiagrams Inc. | |
| Organizing your site from A to Z: creating an index for users who know what they are doing, L. Rosenfeld, Webreview.com | |
| Particles, Waves and Site Visualization, L. Rosenfeld and A. Arbor, Webreview.com | |
| The Navigation and Usability Guide, J. Muehlbauer, Webreview.com | |
| Web usability | |
| Guide to Web usability resources, Keith Inkstone | |
| The Alertbox: current issues in Web usability, Jakob Nielsen/useit.com | |
| Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, W3C | |
| Writing | |
| Writing Strategies, D. Chandler, University of Wales, Aberystwyth | |
| Bibliography for rhetoric, composition, and professional communication, Iowa State University | |
| Living Documentation: the Future of Technical Writing, J. Hewitt | |
| Hypertext and writing: An overview of the hypertext medium, Kimberly Amaral, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth | |
| Online Technical Writing Textbook, David McMurrey | |
| Style in online help, University of Central Florida | |
| Strunk's Elements of Style (1918 edition) | |
| Writing for the Web, Jakob Nielsen/useit.com | |
| WWWeb Hypertext Style, Jerry Tutsch, ExecPC | |
| Writing tools | |
| Concept mapping as prewriting activity, Jon Margerum-Leys | |
| Electronic Outlining as a Tool for Making Writing Visible, J. Price | |
| How Electronic Outlining Can Help You Create Online Materials, J. Price | |
| MindManager, MindJET, LLC | |
| Notes network linearization, Sharples et al., University of Sussex at Brighton | |
| Paradigm® Online Writing Assistant, Chuck Guilford | |
| Technology of writing, Voice of the Shuttle, University of California, Santa Barbara | |
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