Professional and Technical Writing Strategies: Communicating in Technology and Science

by VanAlstyne, Judith S.; Tritt, with Merrill D.

• ISBN13: 9780130412799
• ISBN10: 0130412791
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780131915206, 9780139547362
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div
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Summary

For freshman and sophomore level courses in Professional Writing, Technical Writing and Science and Technical Writing. Comprehensive and easy-to-read, this award-winning text/reference for students emphasizes practical writing. Its presentation and applications offer simple guides that students can easily emulate. It combines instruction, sample papers, exercises and writing projects for manuals, correspondence, research and publication articles, and oral technical communications plus coverage of Internet aids and website design.

Table of Contents

I. GENERAL TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES.

1. Explaining Professional and Technical Communications.
2. Executing The Writing Process: Theory and Practice.
3. Utilizing Graphics and Other Visuals.
4. Designing and Producing Documents and Presentations.

II. THE RESEARCH STRATEGIES.

5. Accessing Information.
6. Documenting Research.

III. THE TECHNICAL STRATEGIES.

7. Preparing Manuals.
8. Defining Terms.
9. Describing Mechanisms.
10. Giving Instructions.
11. Analyzing a Process.

IV. THE PROFESSIONAL STRATEGIES.

12. Composing Correspondence.
13. Preparing Résumés, Cover Letters, and Interviews.
14. Writing Brief Reports.
15. Devising Longer Reports, Proposals.
16. Producing Professional Papers.

V. THE PRESENTATION STRATEGIES.

17. Performing Verbal Communications.
18. Managing Visual Communications.
19. Designing and Managing Websites.
Appendix A: Conventions of Construction, Grammar, and Usage.
Appendix B: Punctuation and Mechanical Conventions.
Works Consulted.
Index.