Technical Writing for Teams: The Stream Tools Handbook

by Alexander V. Mamishev, Sean D. Williams

A unique, integrative, team-centered approach to writing and formatting technical documentsTechnical you have difficulty producing high-quality documents with multiple contributors when faced with a tight deadline?Do you need a process that enables global team members to collaborate online as they produce sophisticated documents?Do you prefer the ease of a WYSIWG desktop publishing tool like Microsoft Word rather than more complex software like LaTeX?Professors and Graduate you want to streamline the process of writing multi-investigator papers, reports, proposals, and books?Do you spend a lot of time formatting documents instead of thinking and writing?Do you write research papers in Microsoft Word and then need to convert them to LaTeX for your thesis?Do you write research papers in LaTeX and then need to convert them to Microsoft Word when embarking on collaborations with your colleagues from industry?Undergraduate you need to write a research paper and don't know where to start?Do you need to collaborate with classmates on a long paper and find yourself lost in organizational details rather than immersed in the content?If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, Technical Writing for The STREAM Tools Handbook is for you. It provides an easy-to-learn system that streamlines individual and collaborative writing, allowing you and your teams to instantly become more productive and create the highest quality documents in a minimum amount of time. Introduced here are the STREAM Tools--Scientific and Technical wRiting, Editing, And file Management Tools--which unlock your collaborators' potential and addresses team dynamics, separation of duties, and workflow. You'll see how to ensure compatibility among multiple writers, achieve consistent formatting, organize content, integrate bibliographic databases, automate the process of document preparation, and move content between Microsoft Word and LaTeX. Checklists, guidelines, and success stories are also included to help you operate as efficiently as possible.From planning and editing documents to solving common team writing problems to managing workflow, "Technical Writing for The STREAM Tools Handbook" is the one-stop reference that allows teams to collaborate successfully and create unified, effective documents.

264 pages, ebook

First published July 13, 2009

Reviews

[Vineet Jain · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good overview of how teams can collaborate for technical writing. It was compiled in 2010, and by now, a great deal of things have changed. Since then google docs usage has been rampant across organizations and collaborative features on MS word have set new benchmarks. I would like to understand if this set of tools has any advantage in today's world. If anybody has any comments, please share.

[Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

I hand this out to new employees.
There's nothing in it that is new or even best in class, but it's got a lot of useful things in one place.
It covers technical writing, project management, and using Microsoft Word.
It gets novices started, and gets average users to work together.