Technical Communication

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1. jlduggerJul 2023
   Used textbooks can get pretty cheap when you don't need the exact edition for the problem sets.

   Textbooks I still have:

   - Operating Systems, Tannenbaum

   - MINIX, Tannenbaum

   - Computer Networks, Tannenbaum

   Not schoolbooks:

   - UNIX & Linux System Administrator Handbook

   - The Linux Programming Interface

   - Time Management for System Administrators, Limoncelli

   - The Practice of System and Network Management, Limocelli et al.

   NonCS:

   - Statistics, Freedman

   - MLA Handbook

   - Technical Communication, Markel

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2. snazzDec 2018
   My personal recommendation for learning to give better presentations is to just do it. Start your own little tech convention and do as much public speaking as possible. You get the "bystander effect" at social events when someone has to say something to a crowd but nobody wants to do it, so step up and get some practice! People don't judge you for errors nearly as much as you think.

   As for written communication, Markel's Technical Communication was used in my English class in college and I remember getting a lot out of following its directions. As you might expect, it's very well written. Of course, I had the advantage of classroom instruction, but I think it would be helpful even for self-study.

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