This comprehensive text provides a how-to guide for content strategy, enabling students and professionals to understand and master the skills needed to develop and manage technical content in a range of professional contexts.
The landscape of technical communication has been revolutionized by emerging technologies such as content management systems, open-source information architecture, and application programming interfaces that change the ways professionals create, edit, manage, and deliver content. This textbook helps students and professionals develop relevant skills for this changing marketplace. It takes readers through essential skills including audience analysis; content auditing; assembling content strategy plans; collaborating with other content developers; identifying appropriate channels of communication; and designing, delivering, and maintaining genres appropriate to those channels. It contains knowledge and best practices gleaned from decades of research and practice in content strategy and provides its audience with a thorough introductory text in this essential area.
Published with Routledge under the auspices of the ATTW Book Series in Technical and Professional Communication, Content Strategy works as a core or supplemental textbook for undergraduate and graduate classes, as well as certification courses, in content strategy, content management, and technical communication. It also provides an accessible introduction for professionals looking to develop their skills and knowledge.
What Does Content Strategy: A How-to Guide Contain?
Introduction: What Is Content Strategy
Chapter 1: Key Concepts in Content Strategy
Chapter 2: The Content Strategy Process
Chapter 3: Audience Analysis
Chapter 4: Identifying Content Types and Channels
Chapter 5: Content Auditing
Chapter 6: Content Modeling
Chapter 7: Assembling a Content Strategy Plan
Chapter 8: Collaborating With Other Content Developers
Chapter 9: Revising and Editing Genres
Chapter 10: Ensuring Content Usability and Accessibility
Chapter 11: Delivering, Governing, and Maintaining Genres
Chapter 12: Localizing Content
Chapter 13: Content Tools and Technologies
Chapter 14: Establishing Yourself as a Content Strategist
Where Can I Get Content Strategy: A How-to Guide?
The book is available for purchase from the Routledge website.
Instructors can also request a free desk copy.
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Cite the Book
Getto, G., Labriola, J., & Ruszkiewicz, S. (2023). Content strategy: A how-to guide. Routledge.