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Title: Indexing: A Nuts-and-Bolts Guide for Technical Writers
Review: I honestly wanted to like this book; instead, I was quite disappointed. The author's basic premise is that indexing is not "rocket science" and that anyone can index quickly and effectively if they follow his ten-step technique. Unfortunately, the book's index, which has many flaws, defeats the author's premise.Many of the index's problems involve See references. The author advises authors to create as many of them as possible. That is analagous to ruining a good recipe with as much pepper as you can find! Readers do not appreciate being bounced around the index unnecessarily.The author also advises writers not to edit an index until they have created all of the entries for it. That strategy (not doing interim edits) almost guarantees that the index will be flawed ... and the index for this book is proof of that...
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