Technical Writing Basics: a Guide to Style and Form
- List Price: $38.60
- Binding: Paperback
- Edition: 1
- Publisher: Prentice Hall
- Publish date: 12/01/1999
Description:
Leads readers through the process of document production and assessment -- showing how to take the structures, patterns and strategies of writing (summary, process, analysis, and persuasion) and apply them in different kinds of technical documents while adhering to standards of format acceptable in the field. Proceeds from fundamental components of technical communication, to templates of presentation, to construction of letters, memos and announcements, instructions, short and long reports, and a job-search portfolio. Contains practical examples showing how technical writing applies to a variety of job and personal situations (in the major company, in nonprofit organizations, small businesses, and agencies and institutions -- and presents the detailed contexts of their production and function.
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