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Guide to Internet Sources in Communication Arts
which links to a guide
to internet resources in technical communication
RGB World - explains RGB color space, additive and subtractive mixing, etc.
Color Mixing - mixing light vs. mixing pigment (links to demonstrations of the difference)
HSV Model - hue, saturation, and value (H, S, and V) are the key variables in selecting RGB colors for the computer screen.
CMYK Color Space - about the color mixing used in "four-color process," professional printing with ink. ". . . process inks filter light as it is reflected off the paper, allowing only certain wavelengths of light to reach your eyes. By adjusting the amount of any ink on the paper, the reflected wavelength changes, changing the color you see." (This is subtractive mixing.)
Jan's Illustrated Computer Literacy 101 - http://www.jegsworks.com/lessons/ - tutorials on Windows, Word, Numbers, PowerPoint
Microsoft Word Legal Users Guide (for Word 2002)- http://education.socialaw.com/wordguide/
A site designed for legal offices, the tutorials here are broadly useful to
editors. Includes tutorials on using page templates ("Understanding
Styles"); section breaks, headers, and footers; automatic numbering
for lists, etc.; "track changes," and more. Highly
recommended if you need to improve your Word skills!
Tutorials on Word Styles -
http://addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm -
http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/cumming/WordForLinguists/Styles.htm
Word Most Valuable Professionals (MVP) FAQ -
http://www.mvps.org/word/
All of the MVP
pages are useful for solving Word problems and learning to use its advanced
functions. Some of the FAQs are actually tutorials for learning advanced tasks.
Hubler's Links Page - http://www.uah.edu/classes/CM100/tutorials.htm - while teaching in the Web cognate at UAH, Mike Hubler created this links page for CM 100. It includes tutorials on Windows, PC Hardware, Using Word (mostly for beginners), searching the internet, learning HTML, and more. If you are not proficient in file management with Windows, you need to do those tutorials!
How to Apply a Style in Word - http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styles/ApplyAStyle.html
Allen Wyatt's Word Tips - http://wordtips.vitalnews.com/ has links explaining many Word feature. For styles, see http://wordtips.vitalnews.com/W184_Styles.html
Rethinking the Design of Presentation Slides by Michael Alley (co-author of Technical Communication article on an alternative design) This site includes links to many model slide presentations on engineering topics and to a preferred slide template that you can download to your computer. Copy the template, open it on your computer, and then Save As "Design Template" (.pot). Then, whenever you start a new PowerPoint presentation, you can select that template by clicking "Slides on My Computer."
A Word a Day - interesting service that emails you a word a day, with
the definition, pronunciation, and an example used in a sentence.
To subscribe: http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscribe.html
Society for Technical Communication (conference papers and some publications
searchable) http://www.stc.org/
This international professional organization has an active
Huntsville
chapter and publishes scholarly research in a quarterly journal called
Technical Communication. The UAH Library subscribes to it. Student
membership in STC is $50 to $56, a bargain compared to regular membership
($140). Membership includes a monthly magazine Intercom, and the
quarterly journal.
IEEE Professional Communication Society www.ieeepcs.org/
Their professional journal, IEEE Transactions in Professional
Communication, is searchable at this site. The UAH Library subscribes
to it.
Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (has syllabi, links to
bibliographies, and other materials)
http://www.attw.org/
This valuable site requires registration (login and password), but does not
charge for access. ATTW publishes Technical
Communication Quarterly, one of the best research journals in the field.
Techwr-L listserv -
a huge group of technical writers has been posting questions and answers to
this list for years.
You can read about or subscribe to the list at their web page,
http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/
The list has a searchable archive that is an excellent starting place for
applied research. Before posting a question to the list, be sure to search the
archive!
Internet Resources for Technical Communicators: http://www.soltys.ca/techcomm.html
Basic HTML: These online tutorials teach you to write web pages from scratch. They are by UAH MIS professor Alan Whitten, HTML Tutorials (http://cas.uah.edu/whittena/mis114/contents.htm )
HTML Goodies: UAH students and professors recommend these tutorials by Dr. Joe Burns.
Free Software - this link takes you to a site where you can download FTP Explorer, AOLPress (free Web authoring software), and other products.