Society for Technical Communication

Mid-South Chapter

Resources

This page contains links to technical communication resources and to other sites of interest to technical communicators.

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Reference

Dictionaries and Thesauri (General Purpose)

Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
American Heritage Dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus, Columbia Encyclopedia, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Strunk's Elements of Style, Gray's Anatomy, CIA WorldFactbook, and more

Dictionary.com
Dictionary, thesaurus, translator, and writing resources

Lycos Reference Room
Encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, and more

Merriam Webster Online

OneLook® Dictionaries
Simultaneously searches up to 750 online dictionaries

Writing Style

ACS (American Chemical Society) Style Guide

Chicago Manual of Style FAQ
You can also e-mail your questions.

(IEEE) Computer Society Style Guide

International System of Units from NIST

Strunk's Elements of Style

Writing SI Units and Symbols

Science and Technology Test-Taking Help

Test Prep Review

Web and Online Design

Design Principles

Graphics and Web Design Based on Tufte's Design Principles
An online tutorial

Style Guide for Online Hypertext
An early (1992) but still relevant effort to define style and design conventions for the WWW

Useit.com
Jakob Nielsen's usability and Web design site

About.com's Desktop Publishing Pages
Easy-to-follow tips and discussions, free fonts, using styles.

HTML/CSS

Bare Bones Guide to HTML
Downloadable file of HTML tags and syntax, plus FAQs and many other resources

DevEdge Online - HTML Reference for Netscape
Documentation of Netscape's implementation of HTML

HTML Help by The Web Design Group
HTML and CSS guides, many other resources

Index DOT: HTML and CSS References
Very well-organized, usable, comprehensive documentation of HTML and CSS

Webmonkey | Reference: HTML Cheatsheet

World Wide Web Consortium
The organization that develops official specifications for web technologies

Tools of the Trade

FrameMaker

FrameUsers.com
User forum, tips, third-party add-ons, and other resources for users of Adobe FrameMaker

Other Organizations and Sites Offering Resources

Speech Writing, Rhetoric and Persuasion

Communispond

The Association of Business Media Companies

Association for Business Communication

International Association for Media and Communication Research