Documentation is a set of documents provided on paper, or online, or on digital or analog media, such as audio tape or CDs. Examples are user guides, white papers, on-line help, quick-reference guides. It is becoming less common to see paper (hard-copy) documentation. Documentation is distributed via websites, software products, and other on-line applications.

Professionals educated in this field are termed documentalists. This field changed its name to information science in 1968, but some uses of the term documentation still exists and there have been efforts to reintroduce the term documentation as a field of study.

While associated ISO standards are not easily available publicly, a guide from other sources for this topic may serve the purpose. . David Berger has provided several principles of document writing, regarding the terms used, procedure numbering and even lengths of sentences, etc.

The following is a list of guides dealing with each specific field and type:

The procedures of documentation vary from one sector, or one type, to another. In general, these may involve document drafting, formatting, submitting, reviewing, approving, distributing, reposting and tracking, etc., and are convened by associated SOPs in a regulatory industry. It could also involve creating content from scratch. Documentation should be easy to read and understand. If it's too long and too wordy, it may be misunderstood or ignored. Clear, Short, Familiar words should be used to a maximum of 15 words to a sentence. Only gender hyper neutral word should be used and cultural biases should be avoided. Procedures should be numbered when they are to be performed. . What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What is one example of digital analog?
2. What is the main topic?
3. Do people get educated for this?
4. What are they called?
5. Has it always been called this?
6. What new name did it undertake?
7. How is it distributed?
8. Are there any other ways?
9. Name another.
10. What's the last
11. Who came up with some principles on how to write docs?
12. Are all the procedures associated with this the same in all sectors?
13. What about this should be easy?
Answer: 1. CDs.
2. Documentation
3. apparently yes
4. documentalists.
5. it was until 1968
6. information science
7. via websites
8. yes
9. software products
10. other on-line applications.
11. David Berger
12. no
13. Documentation

Problem: CHAPTER VIII

IN WHICH MICHAEL FINSBURY ENJOYS A HOLIDAY

Punctually at eight o'clock next morning the lawyer rattled (according to previous appointment) on the studio door. He found the artist sadly altered for the worse--bleached, bloodshot, and chalky--a man upon wires, the tail of his haggard eye still wandering to the closet. Nor was the professor of drawing less inclined to wonder at his friend. Michael was usually attired in the height of fashion, with a certain mercantile brilliancy best described perhaps as stylish; nor could anything be said against him, as a rule, but that he looked a trifle too like a wedding guest to be quite a gentleman. To-day he had fallen altogether from these heights. He wore a flannel shirt of washed-out shepherd's tartan, and a suit of reddish tweeds, of the colour known to tailors as "heather mixture"; his neckcloth was black, and tied loosely in a sailor's knot; a rusty ulster partly concealed these advantages; and his feet were shod with rough walking boots. His hat was an old soft felt, which he removed with a flourish as he entered.

"Here I am, William Dent!" he cried, and drawing from his pocket two little wisps of reddish hair, he held them to his cheeks like side-whiskers and danced about the studio with the filmy graces of a ballet-girl.

Pitman laughed sadly. "I should never have known you," said he.

"Nor were you intended to," returned Michael, replacing his false whiskers in his pocket. "Now we must overhaul you and your wardrobe, and disguise you up to the nines."
1. who knocked on the door?
2. when?
3. who did he find?
4. in what state?
5. how so?
6. what was he usually like?
7. what was he wearing?
8. what pattern?
9. what color was his suit?
10. what fabric?
11. what shoes did he wear?
12. were they new?
13. how did they look?
14. what kind of hat?
15. Did he leave it on?
Answer: 1. the lawyer
2. at eight o'clock
3. the artist
4. sadly altered for the worse
5. bleached, bloodshot, and chalky
6. attired in the height of fashion
7. a flannel shirt
8. washed-out shepherd's tartan
9. reddish
10. tweed
11. walking boots
12. no
13. rough
14. an old soft felt one
15. no

question: CHAPTER X.

He looked expectantly on the cabin table for a letter upon his return to the ship, but was disappointed, and the only letter yielded by the post next morning came from Captain Barber. It was couched in terms of great resignation, and after bemoaning the unfortunate skipper's untimely demise in language of great strength, wound up with a little Scripture and asked the mate to act as master and sail the schooner home.

"You'll act as mate, Ben, to take her back," said the new skipper, thrusting the letter in his pocket.

"Aye, aye, sir," said Ben, with a side glance at Joe, "but I'll keep for'ard, if you don't mind."

"As you please," said Fraser, staring.

"And you're master, I s'pose?" said Joe, turning to Fraser.

Fraser, whose manner had already effected the little change rendered necessary by his promotion from mate to master, nodded curtly, and the crew, after another exchange of looks, resumed their work without a word. Their behaviour all day was docile, not to say lamb-like, and it was not until evening that the new skipper found it necessary to enforce his authority.

The exciting cause of the unpleasantness was Mr. William Green, a slim, furtive-eyed young man, whom Fraser took on in the afternoon to fill the vacancy caused by Ben's promotion. He had not been on board half an hour before trouble arose from his attempt to introduce the manners of the drawing-room into the forecastle.

"Mr. Will-yum Green," repeated Joe, when the new arrival had introduced himself; "well, you'll be Bill 'ere."
1. Why was the man upset after returning?
2. Who wrote to him the following day?
3. Who died?
4. What was asked of him in the note?
5. And do what with the vessel?
6. What did the he say to Ben?
7. Who asks Fraser to confirm his promotion?
8. And what is his response to Joe?
9. What is the crew's reaction?
10. Who replaced Ben?
11. When was he hired?
12. How long was he there before the altercation?
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answer:
1. about the letter
2. from Captain Barber
3. the skipper
4. to act as master
5. sail home
6. to act as mate
7. Joe
8. he nodded
9. went back to work
10. Mr. William Green
11. in the afternoon
12. half an hour