What your asking for falls under the category of "Technical Writing". When I was studying programming in school, the Technical Writing class was required. It covered a number of points like knowing who the target audience is, how to present step by step instructions, etc.
A quick google search for "technical writing" returns 7,090,000 results (http://www.google.ca/search?q=technical+writing&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&meta=).
There should be enough in there to get you started or at least help you narrow down your search.
HTH
Shawn
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Kitta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 10:41 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Recommendation for a book about writing documentation
I am looking for something about writing both requirement documentation as
well as user manulas. Mostly requirement documentation, the manual writing
tips would be a nice bonus in a book. I can also always get 2.
TK
-----Original Message-----
From: Won Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 11:58 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Recommendation for a book about writing documentation
At 11:03 6/1/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am looking for a book about documentation writing (computer application
>documentation). I looked in my local bookstore but didn't find anything.
I
>searched amazon but all the titles I have look at have none or very poor
>explanation as to what given book contains. I am sure many people here
read
>many good books about the art of writing good application documentations.
I
>would be grateful if these people would share with me their book
>recommendations.
What kind of docs: manuals, requirement docs, inline documentation?
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