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How
to Make a Six Figure Income
Have too much month left at the end of your money?
See Jack Molisani's session on how to make a six figure income
as a technical communicator. PDF
Need
to hire a technical writer?
Learn what
to look for when
trying to find a competent
technical writer.
What's
Hot?
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hot
technologies will
be so you can stay current and increase your marketability?
Need
to reduce tech support costs?
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customers call tech
support and
what tech writers can do to reduce those calls.
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Top 10 Mistakes
People Make When Looking for Work. Independent Contractor or Temporary Employee?
Are you an independent contractor or temporary employee?
Read the Smallbusiness.com article on the 20 rules the
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straight from the horse's mouth at the IRS website.
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A Practical Guide to Usability Testing by Jospeh Dumas and Janice Redish.
Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century by Robert E. Horn The Non-Designer's Type Book
Insights and Techniques for Creating Professional-Level Type by Robin Williams The Non-Designer's Scan and Print Book: All
You Need to Know about Production and Prepress to Get Great-Looking Pages by Sandee Cohen and Robin Williams The Chicago Manual of Style: The
Essential Guide for Writers, Editors, and Publishers Strunk & White's Elements of Style
Human Factors for Technical Communicators by Marlana Coe
Handbook of Indexing Techniques: A Guide for Beginning Indexers by Linda Fetters The Art of Indexing by Larry Bonura Adobe FrameMaker 5.5 Classroom in a Book Newton's Telecom Dictionary 15th Edtion by Harry Newton Managing Your Documentation Projects by Joann Hackos The Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications
Standards for Online Communication by Joann Hackos and Dawn Stevens MacMillan Dictionary for Students Like a resource that is not on our list? Send us a note and let us know about sites and books that should be added!
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