Title :
Vehicles for documentation
Author_Institution :
Hewlett-Packard Inc., Fort Collins, CO, USA
Abstract :
A vehicle is defined as an element such as an indentation, heading, graph, table, or paragraph that is used by a technical writer to help a user find or learn about technical information concerning a product. The author lists and describes available vehicles and provides a rationale for using them. He also discusses vehicles for documentation in several contexts in which a technical writer uses them: style, orientation, constraints, and other types of writing.
Keywords :
information science; technical presentation; documentation; product; technical information; writing; Bibliographies; Color; Documentation; Equations; Graphics; Vehicles;
Journal_Title :
Professional Communication, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TPC.1984.6448740
