The best-selling style book, Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace, Seventh Edition , presents principles of writing to help students diagnose their prose quickly and revise it effectively. The four sections-Style as Choice, Clarity, Grace, and Ethics-feature new principles of effective prose, chapter summaries for quick and easy review, and ...
Technical Communication: A Practical Approach 6e emphasizes one simple principle: you learn to write best by doing as much writing as possible. The book engages students by having them write early (starting in Chapter 1) and provides students with consistent, easy-to-follow guidelines for writing all types of technical documents. With a new ...
This best-selling text is more than a comprehensive introduction for the business writing course; it also serves as a post-college reference tool for students launching their careers. "Successful Writing at Work" is recognized for its abundance of realistic situations and problems, broad range of real-world examples, and detailed guidelines for ...
Formerly, Technical Writing, 5th edition, the new 6th edition embraces the multidimensional aspects of a technical communicator. By incorporating a process approach to writing many different technical documents (email, web pages, blogs) coupled with scenarios to bring to life real-world challenges, the text allows students to write successfully. ...
For courses in Business English, Business Communication, or English. Designed to keep pace with changing student populations, current workplace needs, and the emerging 21st century culture, this text offers a lively, accessible, and user-friendly alternative for the many students (including those with poor English skills) who dread the thought of ...
Comprehensive and well-balanced, this writing guide is designed to help students prepare effective documents for their social science courses. The revised fourth edition includes important coverage on efficiently using the Internet for research as well as traditional information resources.
Technical Writing: Principles, Strategies, and Readings offers a flexible combination of instructional chapters and readings that reflect the variety of emphases in today's technical writing classroom. The fifteen instructional chapters offer a general introduction to technical communication, while 24 articles from professional journals and Web ...
Thousands of students have successfully improved their writing and design skills using Anderson's TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION: A READER-CENTERED APPROACH. Known for its treatment of the rhetorical situation and coverage of usability and persuasion, this edition contains new chapters and an innovative design reflecting the visual orientation of today's ...
A departure from the large, expensive, introductory technical communication texts, Writing for the Technical Professions is a brief, easily-referenced, pragmatic text; a manual of actual workplace practices, rather than technical writing "theories," that can take students beyond the college classroom as practicing technical writers. Featuring an ...
As the field of Technical Writing has evolved, so has the eighth edition of Technical English. Known for its direct, no-nonsense writing style, plentiful and varied examples, and step-by-step instruction,Technical English leads students through the many facets of technical communication. The Eighth Edition retains much of the vision of the ...
Sims' Technical Communication for Readers and Writers, Second Edition, guides students in planning, writing, and designing effective documents to meet the needs of users and readers. Thoroughly revised, expanded, and redesigned in full color, this edition gives students the tools they need to create appropriate technical documents for a multitude ...
For courses in Technical Writing, Technical Communication, Science, Engineering, and Business Writing; as well as corporate training seminars in writing. The Pocket Guide to Technical Communication provides a short, handy reference for on-the-job business, technical and scientific writing. It devotes time to the writing process, the structure and ...
For courses in Technical Writing, Technical Communication, Professional Writing, Business Communication and Business Writing. Workplace Communication: A Concise Guide to Process and Product emphasizes the writing process and gives readers a sound introduction to workplace communication. Unique in approach, the text is shorter than most, devoting ...
For one-semester freshman/sophomore-level courses in Technical Writing; and an excellent reference for any course that requires technical writing. Using a reader-friendly approach that is incremental and cumulative, this short, uncluttered guide to technical writing shows students how to take the structures, patterns, and strategies of writing ...
The author describes the functions and proper use of the nine parts of speech, four main types of phrases, two types of clauses, and punctuation. Day also covers voice, person and tense; redundancies and jargon; abbreviations and acronyms; and language sensitivities, all in his refreshingly literate and humorous style.
For freshman and sophomore level courses in Professional and Technical Writing and Communication. This award-winning text presents students with a comprehensive and straightforward introduction to technical communication. Illustrated throughout with professional and student writing samples from numerous career fields, Professional and Technical ...
Good writing is brief and clear. This new edition of the handbook offers updated, practical advice on writing effective letters, reports, and memos, while retaining an easy- to-read format. The text presents examples of good writing to serve as models and also shows what to avoid. It includes illustrations (many more than in the first edition) of ...
This user-friendly, compact text emphasizes the most necessary, useful skills and strategies for successful workplace writing. Based on the successful parent text, Successful Writing at Work, 7/e, the Concise edition maintains a practical approach, an abundance of realistic situations and problems, real-world examples, and detailed guidelines for ...
For more rigorous introductory courses in Technical and Professional Writing. Taking a research-based, integrated problem-solving approach to technical and professional writing, this text provides a model that illustrates real working-world solutions to problems that students are likely to encounter in the workplace. Designed to show that problem ...
Known for its treatment of the rhetorical situation and its reading centered approach, the new edition is now full color and thoroughly updated to include the latest developments in technical communication.
To teach the communication skills necessary for success in the workplace, Kolin offers an abundance of realistic situations, examples, and clear, detailed guidelines. The text guides students from basic concepts such as audience analysis, tone, and format, through the overall writing process. The text' s hallmark pedagogical features, ...
Writing Skills for Technical Students, 6/e, is a self-paced text/workbook designed for the non-traditional student who needs a review of grammar and writing skills in order to write clearly and concisely on the job. It provides diagnosis, instruction, and practice in 15 individualized instructional modules. There are also 12 grammar modules, a ...
Based on the belief that real world simulations of workplace writing situations provide the best opportunities for students to learn how to write effectively on the job, Scenarios for Technical Communication presents a variety of such situations for students to study, analyze, and respond to through numerous writing assignments. Students consider ...
The significantly enhanced, completely revised, full color 5th edition of Technical Writing: Process and Product guides students through the entire writing process--prewriting, writing, and rewriting--developing an easy-to-use, step-by-step technique for writing the types of documents they will encounter on the job. The authors' student-friendly ...
English for Specific Purposes (ESP) is now well established as an important and distinctive part of English Language Teaching. Since the late 1980's ESP has changed in two very significant respects. Firstly, English for Business Purposes has become an increasingly important, even dominant, area of ESP. Secondly, the work of discourse and genre ...
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