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Is anyone here a technical or commercial writer? I have a basic question on writing technical training materials and research. I am producing some tutorials, training materials and perhaps even a small bound publication. Now I have extensive knowledge of the prepress, digital imaging, and print production. But of course will still need to do quite a bit of research in specific areas. Now everything will be written by me so not to plagiarize consulted texts, and will include a bibliography. But is there any other practice I should observe for research materials.


J. Stuart J.

Have an endnotes section for referencing any direct quotes you use, becuase in the end you'll have to use some to sound convincing.

Skaarjj is right... I'd do the same. Endnotes section, yep.
But personally, I'd take it a step further than just having notes for direct quotes by also doing it for general ideas that you've extracted from other texts as well.

If you're interested in taking that route... here's some additional info.. http://www.aresearchguide.com/7footnot.html



[This message has been edited by Michael (edited 10-12-2003).]

Hey thanks. Forgot about endnotes, though I was missing something.

J. Stuart J.

[This message has been edited by jstuartj (edited 10-14-2003).]