[Sigia-l] The IA of writing (question)

[Madhu Menon]

At 10:37 PM 12-08-02, John Fullerton wrote:
>Could anyone recommend books that talk about writing in a way that is
>related to IA (even without reference to IA), or simply recommend books
>about writing?

If you read just one book on writing, make it "On writing well" by William 
Zinsser. It shows you how to write well, which is probably the most 
important component of a useful information-based site.

Then you can ignore the usability pundits screeching about making your 
writing more "usable". As if bullets and short paragraphs can fix 
badly-written copy.

Zinsser was extolling the virtues of a simple style of writing long before 
the Internet became mainstream, and certainly before Crawford Killian. ;)

Obligatory Amazon link: http://tinyurl.com/h7d

Regards,

Madhu

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