- Researching Print and Electronic Sources
From the Writing Center at Colorado State University, this site offers a guide to audience analysis, a critical piece of the technical communication process.
- Audience Analysis
Written by Ida Rodgers, a professor at Texas Tech University, this Web page provides helpful guidelines for defining and analyzing audiences.
- Online Technical Writing: Audience Analysis
This Web site, part of David A. McMurrey's Online Technical Writing online text, takes audience analysis guidelines a step further by discussing how technical communicators can then use the information about their audience to shape their documents.
- Developing an Outline
This Web site, from the Purdue University Online Writing Lab, offers helpful tips for developing an outline and provides a sample outline.
- Engineering Writing Centre: Writing and Using Outlines
The University of Toronto Engineering Writing Centre compiled this Web site to help engineering students learn how to write and use outlines, especially in writing formal reports.
- Document Planning and Implementation
TECHWR-L, an award-winning Web site that houses the TECHWR-L discussion list as well as extensive resources for technical communicators, provides a set of resources for planning documents.
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