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This is a wiki, as in Wikipedia. The name comes from the Hawaiian for quick, as the developer wanted to create a way to do fast and easy real-time web writing and collaboration. As you can imagine, a tool that allows our whole group to write and design pages quickly and collaboratively should be a real aid to us in this course. I've only used a wiki for one term now, but it did seem to work pretty well for aiding both personal and collective memory and development. So we'll be using one in this course as well, and I will be asking all of you for feedback and input on how it could/should work.

Creating your Home Page inside our Course Wiki:
One of our first tasks in the course will be for all of you to create a "home page" inside the course wiki that all of your work will "tree" out from. We will be discussing how to create pages, how to modify and design them, and a lot more about how to use the wiki. But to start with, everyone's home page should introduce each of you to the class in a way that gives us a bit broader perspective of you, but that also bridges between you personally and what our little community is going to be about--technical communication. I will be going into greater detail about this first example of practicing tech comm.

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Books for the course:
Here are links to Amazon for our textbooks--be sure to check the "new & used" link below. There are new books, and ones "like new", even cheaper than Amazon's good price.

Dynamics in Document Design: Creating Text for Readers, by Karen A. Schriver --

Central Works in Technical Communication (Paperback) , by Johndan Johnson-Eilola (Editor), Stuart A. Selber (Editor) --

Design of Everyday Things, Donald Norman --

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A local copy of PmWiki's documentation has been installed along with the software, and is available via the documentation index.

To continue setting up PmWiki, see initial setup tasks.

The basic editing page describes how to create pages in PmWiki. You can practice editing in the wiki sandbox.

More information about PmWiki is available from http://www.pmwiki.org .