Publications

We have publications that will help you produce better technical documents:

Writing Revisable Manuals – A Handbook for Business and Government gives you all the information you’ll need to design and produce effective and easy-to-revise in-house policy and procedure manuals. An updated version of this book is available from Thomson Carswell for CAD$150.

Writing Styleguide and Dictionary of Plain English (PDF 72 KB) is a short styleguide covering key guidelines for in-house manuals together with a list of frequently abused and overblown words and their plain English equivalents. There is no charge for this PDF document.

Sharpening Your Writing Skills – A Workshop for Business and Technical Writers is a 133-page PDF document that teaches you how to write like a pro. This is the same workbook we give away at our Sharpening Your Writing Skills workshops.