Sean Williams & Alexander Mamishev 
Technical Writing for Teams 
The STREAM Tools Handbook

A unique, integrative, team-centered approach to writing and
formatting technical documents

Technical Professionals:

* Do you have difficulty producing high-quality documents with
multiple contributors when faced with a tight deadline?

* Do you need a process that enables global team members to
collaborate online as they produce sophisticated documents?

* Do you prefer the ease of a WYSIWG desktop publishing tool like
Microsoft Word rather than more complex software like La Te X?

* Professors and Graduate Students:

* Do you want to streamline the process of writing
multi-investigator papers, reports, proposals, and books?

* Do you spend a lot of time formatting documents instead of
thinking and writing?

* Do you write research papers in Microsoft Word and then need to
convert them to La Te X for your thesis?

* Do you write research papers in La Te X and then need to convert
them to Microsoft Word when embarking on collaborations with your
colleagues from industry?

Undergraduate Students:

* Do you need to write a research paper and don’t know where to
start?

* Do you need to collaborate with classmates on a long paper and
find yourself lost in organizational details rather than immersed
in the content?

If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, Technical
Writing for Teams: The STREAM Tools Handbook is for you. It
provides an easy-to-learn system that streamlines individual and
collaborative writing, allowing you and your teams to instantly
become more productive and create the highest quality documents in
a minimum amount of time. Introduced here are the STREAM
Tools–Scientific and Technical w Riting,
Editing, And file Management Tools–which
unlock your collaborators’ potential and addresses team dynamics,
separation of duties, and workflow. You’ll see how to ensure
compatibility among multiple writers, achieve consistent
formatting, organize content, integrate bibliographic databases,
automate the process of document preparation, and move content
between Microsoft Word and La Te X. Checklists, guidelines, and
success stories are also included to help you operate as
efficiently as possible.

From planning and editing documents to solving common team
writing problems to managing workflow, Technical Writing for
Teams: The STREAM Tools Handbook is the one-stop reference that
allows teams to collaborate successfully and create unified,
effective documents.

About the author

ALEXANDER V. MAMISHEV is an Associate Professor in the
Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of
Washington, as well as the Director of the Sensors, Energy, and
Automation Laboratory and the Director of Industrial Assessment
Center.

SEAN D. WILLIAMS is Associate Dean of the Graduate School
and Associate Professor of Professional Communication at Clemson
University. He is the cofounder of the Carolinas Virtual Worlds
Consortium, and conducts research on collaborative writing, virtual
teams, and technical communication.