Sunday, March 21, 2010

Useful Books for Aspiring Writers



Book



Author



Publisher

1.    Scribner Handbook for Writers
Robert DiYanni and Pat C. Hoy


2.    Eats, Shoots and Leaves
Lynn Truss

3.    The New International Webster’s Pocket Reference Library

CBS, New Delhi
4.    Writing and Speaking in the Technology Professions
Beer, D.F. 1992. (Ed)
The Institute of Electircal and Electronics Engineers Inc., New York
5.    Variety in Written English
Bex, T. 1996
Routledge
6.    Academic Writing
Björk, L and Räisänen, C
Studentlitteratur
7.    Genre Analysis
Bhatia, V. 1993
London : Longman
8.    Coherence, Continuity and Cohesion: Theoretical Foundations for Document Design
Campbell, K.S. 1995, Hillsdale , NJ
Laurence Erlbaum
9.    Writing at University
Crème, Pyllia & Lea, Mary R. 2003
Maidenhead: Open University Press
10. Rediscover Grammar
Crystal, David. 2001
Longman
11. Writing with Power
Elbow, P. 1981
Oxford : Oxford University Press
12. The Linguistics of Writing
Fabb, N. (Ed) 1989
Manchester University Press
13. How to Write Essays, Dissertations and Theses in Literary Studies
Fabb, N and Durant, A. 1993
London : Longman
14. Language and Control
Fowler, R., Hodge, B., Kress, G. and Trew, T. 1979
London : Routledge
15. Text and Context in Functional Linguistics
Ghadessy, M. 1998
John Benjamins
16. Punctuation
Gordon, I. 1983
Longman
17. Cohesion in English
Halliday, M.A.K and R. Hasan. 1976
London : Longman
18. The Technology of Writing
Hartley, J. (Ed) 1992
Jessica Kingsley
19. English in Speech and Writing
Hughes, R. 1996
Routledge
20. The Bedford Guide to the Research Process
Johnson, J. 1987
Bedford : St. Martins
21. The Basics of Writing Reports Et cetera
Moore, N, and Hesp, M. 1985
London : Clive Bingley
22. Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 1998


23. Approaches to Discourse
Schiffrin, D. 1994
Oxford: Blackwell

24. Teaching the Basic Skills: Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar
Smedley, D. 1983
London : Methuen
25. Grammar and Writing
Stott, Rebecca & Chapman, Peter. (Eds) 2001
Longman
26. Writing with Style
Stott, Rebecca & Avery, Simon. (Eds) 2001
Longman
27. Speaking your Mind
Young, Tory & Bryan, Cordelia.(Eds.)
Longman
28. Making Your Case
Snaith, Anna & Rylance, Rick. (Eds) 2001
Longman
29. Guide to Punctuation
Todd, L. 1995
London : Cassel
30. Writing for the Web
Crawford Kilian

31. Falling in Love with English
Prof. V.Sukumaran Nair
Mathrubhumi

32. Writing Online: A Student’s Guide to the Internet and World Wide Web
Eric Crump and Nick Carbone


33. Web Page Design Cookbook
William Horton, et al

34. The Internet Writer’s Handbook
Martha C. Sammons

35. Labyrinths: The Art of Interactive Writing and Design
Domenic Stansberry

36. WRITING.COM: Creative Internet Strategies to Advance Your Writing Career
Moira Allen

37. Secret Guide to Computers
Russ Walters

38. Structured Computer Organization
Andrew Tannenbaum


39. Managing Documentation Projects
JoAnn T. Hackos

40. Techniques for Technical Communicators
Carol M. Barnum and Saul Carliner



41.    Indlish
Jyoti Sanyal
Viva Books
42.    The English Language
David Crystal
Penguin


MIT Open Courseware resources
Computer Networks by Andrew Tannenbaum
Course modules for the Technical Communication paper, Dept. of Mass Communication, 

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Dorothy Book: Media for Children



Media Bibliography


By Sabine Hochrieser, Michael Kargl & Franz Thalmair

Courtesy: http://www.vagueterrain.net/journal11/bibliography
Arns, Inke / Lillemose, Jacob (2005): It's Contemporary Art, Stupid
http://www.projects.v2.nl/%7Earns/Texts/Media/ArticleforArgos-Arns-Lille...
Art-Place-Technology Symposium (2006): I Organise Stuff therefore I Am
http://www.art-place-technology.org/blog/?p=4

The Essential Media Bibliography


Basic readings:
Multimedia, from Wagner to Virtual Reality
ed. Randall Packer & Ken Jordan, Norton & Co. NY, 2001
ISBN 0-393-04979-5

The Language of New Media
by Lev Manovich, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 2002
ISBN 0-262-13374-1

New Media Working Bibliography

Bibliography of websites relating to new media, complied by the Library Director of
Poynter; Poynteronline.org is the website of the Poynter Institute, school for
journalists.

Media History: Bibliography


General Topics:

Youth & Media Organizations/ Associations


ONLINE RESOURCES

Associated Collegiate Press
http://studentpress.journ.umn.edu/acp/
ACP is a division of the National Scholastic Press Association.

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
http://aejmc.org/
AEJMC is an association of journalism/mass communication
faculty, students, administrators and professionals.

New Media Bibliography: Print & Online


New Media & Transformation Bibliography
By David Shedden (More articles by this author)
Library Director, Poynter Institute
More in this series

ONLINE RESOURCES
A Brief History of the Internet
http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml
The Internet Society.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

What is a Style Guide? Why Do You Need a Style Guide?

A style guide or style manual is a set of standards for

Popular and Recognized Style Guides for Technical Writing.

Style guides are particularly important in technical writing projects. Where technical writing is undertaken in a large team or project, it is important that

How to Create a Corporate Style Guide?

In addition to the standard style guides, most of the companies have their own corporate style guides to cover

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Million, Billion, Trillion: Confusions With Numbers

A matter of wide spread confusion it is.
A billion is
109 = 1 000 000 000 in the American system and
1012 = 1 000 000 000 000 in the European system. For 109,