NDLI: Manuals that meet market demands

Please wait, while we are loading the content...

Designing hypermedia help systems: problems and issues

Business planning in technical documentation organizations

Strategies for designing manuals for hacker styles of learning

Rhetoric and human-computer interaction: investigations into the writing of user-centered documentation

A writing course in user documentation for computer science majors

Writing online help when space is limited

Creating effective hypercard online documentation and training

The relationships between online help systems and print documentation: an empirical investigation

A survey of technical computer users resulting in guidelines for the development of technical computer documentation

Sentence first, verdict afterward: finding the prerequisites for good computer documentation

Users invoked: How documents help readers assume user roles

Conceptual foundations for computer documentation: new distinctions for a new er

A distributed architecture for document management

Software maintenance documentation

Manuals that meet market demands

Forms based documentation to support structured develomemt and C.A.S.E. implementation

The myth and realities of C.A.S.E. for documentation

Maintaining multiple versions of a document

Scribe support in GNU emacs

Usability planning for end-user training

Executable documentation: testing the documentation, documenting the testing

Manuals that meet market demands

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	McClaren, L.
Abstract	The greatest challenge you, the writer, will face when creating a manual is to design one that is used, a manual that the user loves, a manual with dog-eared pages, yellow highlighter and handwritten notes. Don't you wish your manuals would look as used as the yellow pages do after just one year's use?Yet, writers are also holders of manuals, many of which we do not use. Is there an out-of-date manual tucked into the bottom shelf of your bookcase, dusty with disuse? Do you know if it is even relevant anymore?The business community is littered with beautiful manuals, color-coded headings, amazing graphics—but they're useless, because the information is out of date. Sometimes it seems as though the writer had been trying to create a document like the U.S. Constitution, which has remained virtually unchanged in 200 years. Now there is a document that has stood the test of time. But it required 55 men almost 17 weeks to bring a document of 4,000 words to publication.Should we be striving for such immutability? Are we expecting to create manuals that will stand the test of time? Is this a realistic or even a practical goal? Or should we design our documents from the beginning for change?A manual is not a dead object, created once, then left on the shelf like a vase. It is a living, evolving document, that must be nurtured with new information, with new approaches. Without this evolution, it will die.
Starting Page	103
Ending Page	107
Page Count	5
ISBN	089791337X
DOI	10.1145/74311.74326
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1989-11-08
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

Sl.	Authority	Responsibilities	Communication Details
1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
5	Website/Portal (Helpdesk)	Queries regarding NDLI and its services	support@ndl.gov.in
6	Contents and Copyright Issues	Queries related to content curation and copyright issues	content@ndl.gov.in
7	National Digital Library of India Club (NDLI Club)	Queries related to NDLI Club formation, support, user awareness program, seminar/symposium, collaboration, social media, promotion, and outreach	clubsupport@ndl.gov.in
8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in

Improving quality of livestock products to meet market and community demands

Improving quality of livestock products to meet market and community demands

Improving quality of livestock products to meet market and community demands

Upgrading of infrastructure in order to meet new operation and market demands

Sprint Nextel Expands Security Portfolio and Vertical Market Strategies to Meet Customer Demands

Processing And Grain Quality To Meet Market Demands

Solutions that meet your demands for : Excellent choices for environmental applications speed accuracy productivity

Adjusting Agricultural Production and Distribution in the Clarksburg Area to Meet Home Market Demands

Improving the AEATRI-motorized maize sheller to meet the market demands of commercial maize farmers

Manuals that meet market demands

Similar Documents

Improving quality of livestock products to meet market and community demands

Improving quality of livestock products to meet market and community demands

Improving quality of livestock products to meet market and community demands

Upgrading of infrastructure in order to meet new operation and market demands

Sprint Nextel Expands Security Portfolio and Vertical Market Strategies to Meet Customer Demands

Processing And Grain Quality To Meet Market Demands

Solutions that meet your demands for : Excellent choices for environmental applications speed accuracy productivity

Adjusting Agricultural Production and Distribution in the Clarksburg Area to Meet Home Market Demands

Improving the AEATRI-motorized maize sheller to meet the market demands of commercial maize farmers

Manuals that meet market demands