Advanced Scientific and Technical Writing
 Internet and Home Page Resources

How To Create, Edit, and Manage your Homepage <on the u.arizona server>
Using Netscape Composer to create and edit web pages
Workshop Calendar: UofA Library/CCIT Workshops
 
 

HTML Resources

• Webmonkey: HTML Cheat Sheet
• Crash course on writing documents for the Web

<Eamonn Sullivan>
• NCSA Beginner's Guide to HTML
• View the HTML of others' pages
• Test your HTML
• More examples of HTML in action
• Joe Barta's Web Page Tutorials
• Creating Web Pages

<Marion French, Rochester Institute of Technology>

 
• IEEE Web Publishing Guide
• IEEE Standards Style Manual
• Yale C/AIM Style Guide

<You might also be interested in this critique of the Yale Guide>
• The World Wide Web Consortium 

<W3C> develops protocols for the web; they're currently working on HTML 4.0 which will be the new web standard by the end of the year.
• Center for Applied Special Technology 

<CAST expands "learning opportunities for people with disabilities by providing or developing assistive technology for individuals">
• Web page tools & guides 

<a short annotated guide I'm putting together>
• Project Cool 

<see especially the Five-Minute HTML Quick Start>

Branham, Craig "A Student's Guide to Research with the WWW"
<http://www.slu.edu/departments/english/research/index.html>

Grassian, Esther "Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources" 
<http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/instruct/critical.htm> 

Metz, Terry "Webliography of Web Search Tools"
<http://www.library.carleton.edu/websearch/bibweb.html>

Stellin, Susan "Can You Trust Your Search Engine?"
<http://www.cnet.com/Content/Features/Dlife/Search/index.html>

Walker, Janice: "The Columbia Guide to Online Style: MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources" <http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/mla.html>

----- "The Columbia Guide to Online Style: APA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources"
<http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/apa.html>

• Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) 
• Society for Technical Communication (STC)
(especially see their TechComm Resources)

• The Women, Information Technology, and Scholarship (WITS)

"Although many have extolled the democratizing and emancipatory virtues 
of various forms of information technologies, we do not necessarily share 
this unabashed enthusiasm ..."

• TECHWR-L 

A very busy -- and helpful -- discussion list for technical writers
• Technical Writing: Books and Reference Sources 

(John Renish)
• Peterborough Technical Communication 

(An excellent collection of resources)
• John December 

(A technical communication consultant's site)
• COREComm's Worst-Technical-Writing-Sample-of-the-Month Contest 
• The Mining Company Guide to Technical Writing 
• If Dr. Seuss Were a Technical Writer 

 
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