Ask HN: Best books/resources on technical writing?

A friend of mine just published this[1], which is a quick read and inexpensive (free on Kindle Unlimited apparently). I'm not sure if I'm allowed to out where he works but he's the real deal.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Technical-Writing-Introduction-...

See: http://docs.writethedocs.org/book/

HN discussion from almost a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8699178

Related: http://docs.writethedocs.org/

This could be a contender for best, at least, the manuals referenced here are better than most: http://www.helpscribe.com/2008/12/great-examples-of-technica...

Good article + links on how to write a research paper: (Write good papers - Daniel Lemire) http://lemire.me/blog/rules-to-write-a-good-research-paper/

Someone else linked to Write the Docs, but that conference is awesome and full of great tech writing advice.

Word Up! by Marcia Riefer Johnston (http://www.amazon.ca/Write-Powerful-Sentences-Paragraphs-Eve...) is also solid for improving the quality of your writing. The book itself is a bit… precious, though.

How to make sense of any mess by Abby Covert is great for organizing (which is a big part of tech writing for me). Available on Amazon and now also at http://www.howtomakesenseofanymess.com/

* Strunk and White

* Chicago Manual of Style

* NASA Technical Report Writing (Technical Memorandum 105419 (1))

(1) A personal favorite: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/1993001...

I once read a text by Steve Losh about how to write documentation, and I learned much from it.

I'm on a device with a glass interface so it's too difficult to get the link, but you can just google it.