List of Books on Tech Writing

Here is the beginning of our list of books about technical writing and books that double as useful tools for technical writers:

• Hackos, JoAnn, Managing Your Documentation Projects (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1994)
• DeRespinis, Francis et al., The IBM Style Guide (Upper Saddle River, NJ: IBM Press Books, 2012)
• Rosenberg, Barry J., Spring into Technical Writing (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley, 2005)
• The Chicago Manual of Style (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2010)
• Brooks, Fred, The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (Anniversary Edition) (Addison Wesley, 1995)
• Kernighan, Brian and Ritchie, Dennis, The C Programming Language (ANSI C) (Prentice Hall, 1988)

Please comment and tell us which books have been important to you in your role as a technical writer.

Note: Tim Hildred is on holiday until mid-November. Zac Dover is blogging in his absence.