Structured Writing: Rhetoric and Process

Structured writing has never been more important or more confusing. We keep trying to do more and more with content, but we give ourselves less and less time to do it. Structured content can help keep your rhetoric on track and your processes efficient. But how does it do that and what is the relationship between rhetoric and process? It is easy to get lost in sea of acronyms and buzz words: semantics, XML, metadata, DITA, structure, DocBook, hypertext, Markdown, topics, XSLT, reuse, LaTeX, silos, HTML. Structured Writing cuts through the noise, explaining what structured writing is (you have been doing it all along) and how you can use different structures to achieve different purposes. It focuses on how you can partition and manage the complexity of the content creation process using structured writing techniques to ensure that everything is handled by the person or process with the skills, time, and resources to handle it effectively. Most importantly, this book shows you how the right structured writing techniques can improve the quality of your content and, at the same time, make your content processes more efficient without sacrificing quality for efficiency or vice versa. There are so many options available in the structured writing space today. This book will show you where each of them fits and help you choose the approach that is optimal for your content.

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Structured Writing: Rhetoric and Process

Structured writing has never been more important or more confusing. We keep trying to do more and more with content, but we give ourselves less and less time to do it. Structured content can help keep your rhetoric on track and your processes efficient. But how does it do that and what is the relationship between rhetoric and process? It is easy to get lost in sea of acronyms and buzz words: semantics, XML, metadata, DITA, structure, DocBook, hypertext, Markdown, topics, XSLT, reuse, LaTeX, silos, HTML. Structured Writing cuts through the noise, explaining what structured writing is (you have been doing it all along) and how you can use different structures to achieve different purposes. It focuses on how you can partition and manage the complexity of the content creation process using structured writing techniques to ensure that everything is handled by the person or process with the skills, time, and resources to handle it effectively. Most importantly, this book shows you how the right structured writing techniques can improve the quality of your content and, at the same time, make your content processes more efficient without sacrificing quality for efficiency or vice versa. There are so many options available in the structured writing space today. This book will show you where each of them fits and help you choose the approach that is optimal for your content.

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Structured Writing: Rhetoric and Process

Structured Writing: Rhetoric and Process

by Mark Baker
Structured Writing: Rhetoric and Process

Structured Writing: Rhetoric and Process

by Mark Baker

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Overview

Structured writing has never been more important or more confusing. We keep trying to do more and more with content, but we give ourselves less and less time to do it. Structured content can help keep your rhetoric on track and your processes efficient. But how does it do that and what is the relationship between rhetoric and process? It is easy to get lost in sea of acronyms and buzz words: semantics, XML, metadata, DITA, structure, DocBook, hypertext, Markdown, topics, XSLT, reuse, LaTeX, silos, HTML. Structured Writing cuts through the noise, explaining what structured writing is (you have been doing it all along) and how you can use different structures to achieve different purposes. It focuses on how you can partition and manage the complexity of the content creation process using structured writing techniques to ensure that everything is handled by the person or process with the skills, time, and resources to handle it effectively. Most importantly, this book shows you how the right structured writing techniques can improve the quality of your content and, at the same time, make your content processes more efficient without sacrificing quality for efficiency or vice versa. There are so many options available in the structured writing space today. This book will show you where each of them fits and help you choose the approach that is optimal for your content.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781492070818
Publisher: XML Press
Publication date: 09/10/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 514
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Mark Baker is the author of Every Page is Page One: Topic-based Writing for Technical Communication and the Web as well as other books on content and content technologies and dozens of articles on technical communication, content strategy, and structured writing. He has worked as a technical writer, tech comm manager, director of communications, programmer, copywriter, and consultant and has spoken frequently at industry conferences. He has designed, built, and used multiple structured writing tools and systems, including the one used to write this book. Mark blogs at everypageispageone.com and tweets as @mbakeranalecta.

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • I. Structured Writing Domains
    • How Ideas Become Content
    • Writing in the Media Domain
    • Writing in the Document Domain
    • Writing in the Subject Domain
    • The Management Domain: an Intrusion


  • II. Process, Rhetoric, and Structure
    • Partitioning Complexity
    • Rhetorical Structure
    • Information Architecture
    • Writing


  • III. Algorithms
    • Separating Content from Formatting
    • Processing Structured Text
    • Single Sourcing
    • Reuse
    • Generated Content
    • Extract
    • Merge
    • Modeling
    • Linking
    • Publishing
    • Active Content


  • IV. Structures
    • Content as Data
    • Blocks, Fragments, Paragraphs, and Phrases
    • Wide Structures
    • Subject-Domain Structures
    • Metadata
    • Terminology
    • Relevance
    • Composable Structures
    • Conformance


  • V. Languages
    • Markup
    • Patterns
    • Lightweight Markup Languages
    • Heavyweight Markup Languages
    • Extensible and Constrainable Languages
    • Constraint Languages


  • VI. Management
    • Content Management
    • Collaboration
    • Avoiding Duplication
    • Auditing
    • Change Management
    • Repeatability
    • Timeliness
    • Translation


  • VII. Design
    • System Design


  • Index

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