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zurückRelying on the basic principles of journalism, 21st Century Feature Writing makes feature writing accessible for students through a combination of student and professional examples.
While most other texts focus on high-level professional feature writing, 21st Century Feature Writing focuses on entry-level writing, a skill that students will need to develop for their early careers. Each chapter covers specific aspects of feature writing and reviews the applicable principles of journalism. This student-friendly text speaks to readers in conversational yet informative, organized prose. Students will gain confidence as they study features written at an accessible level as well as gain insight from exemplary professional writing examples.
Appropriate for undergraduate introductory technical writing courses.
Giving students the tools and know-how to become proficient technical writers, this practical guide takes a hands-on approach and organizes material around a series of task-oriented chapters. Centered on the belief that writing is a step-by-step process, it addresses the expanded roles and needs of the today's technical writer, and emphasizes the importance of technical communication in the professional workplace.
The media says technical writing is a hot new career (and judging by the nearly 10,000 job offerings listed on career Websites, the media is probably correct), but no clear path exists for someone wanting to become a technical writer. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Technical Writing provides a solid grounding in the principles and techniques of writing for software and hardware companies. A veritable "cheat sheet" for tech writing, the book tells readers what they can expect on the job, and guides them through every phase of a project.
This vast collection of American history map transparencies includes over 200 map transparencies ranging from the first Native Americans to the end of the Cold War, covering wars, social trends, elections, immigration, and demographics. For adopters only. Restrictions apply. See your Allyn & Bacon/Longman representative for details.
In a concise, streamlined format, this text features the key principles of John Lannon's best-selling Technical Communication and includes state-of-the-art information on writing and researching online, ethics, usability, visual communication, and copyright law.
A Concise Guide to Technical Communication takes a situational approach, emphasizing issues of audience, purpose, and task. The first text of its kind to acknowledge that most technical communication today takes place electronically, A Concise Guide offers a seamless connection between the new and old worlds of technical communication.
KEY BENEFIT: In a concise, streamlined format, this complete technical communication book draws on the strengths of John M. Lannon's best-selling Technical Communication(now in its eighth edition) but also includes state-of-the-art information on writing and researching in cyberspace, copyright, privacy, and ethics, usability, page design, and visual communication. The book takes a situational approach, emphasizing issues of audience, purpose, and task. Offering a critical look at communication technologies in relation to technical communication this book is designed for a broad range of readers. KEY TOPICS:Concise Format.Responding to consumer requests for a more wieldy book, The Concise Guide is the first book in this format designed to be the primary book for an introduction to Technical Communications. It allows readers to easily and affordably supplement the book with their own materials, materials from industry, or other examples. Based on the market leading Tech Comm book. Lannon's Technical Communication 8/e is the undisputed market leader. The Concise Guide builds on that tradition. The Global Window. Each chapter includes a boxed feature which highlights the global nature of technical communication. Click on this. Each chapter includes a boxed feature which offers relevant connections to Internet sources which add additional depth to the materials covered in the chapter. Coverage of technology/new media. The Concise Guide is the first Technical Communication book which acknowledges that most technical communication today is electronic-whether it be Web sites, CD-ROM helps files, or e-mail reports, today's technical communicators work more in the new media than in the old ones. The Concise Guide offers a seamless connection between the new and old worlds of technical communication.MARKET: Technical Writing.
A practical, detailed orientation to job-related writing and speaking skills.
For courses in Criminal Justice Writing and Criminal Justice Research.
The Criminal Justice Student Writer's Manual is designed to teach beginning students how to conduct criminal justice research and write papers in the discipline. This comprehensive resource frees instructors from having to teach the details of the writing process. It is a valuable tool for all criminal justice courses that ask students to write-from introductory classes through advanced undergraduate classes. Would your students benefit from a writing manual tied specifically to Criminal Justice?
This is a method tested reference guide (developed over 10 yrs. at IBM's technical Info Labs) for technical writers and editors in communication and engineering companies. It features extensive examples, illustrations and before and after excerpts from real technical information to help the reader/user become a very competent writer or editor.
The only technical writing guide on the market that includes visuals, before and after examples, and checklists -- straight from IBM!
For upper-level undergraduate or graduate-level courses in Editing or Copyediting, Professional or Technical Writing, Advanced Composition, General, or Magazine Editing. Based on interviews with actual workplace writers and editors, this unique text/workbook teaches editing approaches and skills that writers can apply to their own or others' documents. It carefully outlines a process to identify and solve problems and helps students develop the ability to explain their editing decisions.
You know the authors names. You recognize the title. Youve probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style, the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition. The revisions to the new edition are purposely kept minimal in order to retain the books unique tone, wit, and charm. A new Glossary of the grammatical terms used in the book provides a convenient reference for readers. The discussion of pronoun use is revised to reflect the contemporary concern with sexist language. In addition, there are numerous slight revisions in the book itself which implement this advice. A new Foreword by Roger Angell reminds readers that the advice of Strunk & White is as valuable today as when it was first offered. This book has conveyed the principles of English style to millions of readers. Use the fourth edition of "the little book" to make a big impact with writing.
The most indispensable writing resource!
You know the authors' names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style, the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition. The revisions to the new edition are purposely kept minimal in order to retain the book's unique tone, wit, and charm. A new Glossary of the grammatical terms used in the book provides a convenient reference for readers. The discussion of pronoun use is revised to reflect the contemporary concern with sexist language. In addition, there are numerous slight revisions in the book itself which implement this advice. A new Foreword by Roger Angell reminds readers that the advice of Strunk & White is as valuable today as when it was first offered.This book has conveyed the principles of English style to millions of readers. Use the fourth edition of "the little book" to make a big impact with writing.
Written by engineers for engineers, this practical textbook is designed to develop the communication skills needed by all types of engineering students to be successful both in college and the workplace. Real engineering documents are included in each chapter providing helpful guidelines to the preparation of documents.
This book deals with ethics and value systems as they relate to technical and scientific discourse. While it covers several traditional ethical theories from classical to contemporary times, it also emphasizes that ethics is a personal matter of judgment. The book shows students how to become involved with thinking about and applying these theories to their own discourse. The fact that there are no easy answers to ethical questions is emphasized.
Issues that are covered include how and why information is obtained and how it will be used; how the meaning of technical terms shift with the value perspectives behind them; and how science and technology can be used to put forth questionable values or to serve values not apparent in the discourse.
This guide teaches students and professionals a systematic process for researching, designing, writing, and submitting successful grant-seeking proposals.
Focusing on proposals submitted for government, foundation, and corporation funding, Grant Seeking in an Electronic Age leads the reader through a six-step grant-seeking process, from researching potential funders, to designing, writing and submitting a proposal that follows the funder's guidelines. Grounded in theory, but rooted in successful practice, it teaches students what really works-a third of students who submit proposals based on this text's approach get funded within a year. The text's guided discovery process provides a useful framework for novice writers while its thinking-planning exercises offer useful ways of organizing information and discovering what still need to be researched.
This new edition retains the hallmarks of its predecessors: brevity, accessibility, and practicality at an economical price.
The Guide to Rapid Revision gives students immediate answers to specific problems, offers sufficient information to solve them, and does so with extreme brevity and clarity.
With a table of correction symbols that doubles as a table of contents, and extensive cross-referencing, students can easily find answers to specific problems or grammatical queries. Instructors can use the added, topically organized table of contents as an aid to focusing on certain topics (such as punctuation) during the semester. The book is alphabetized according to common correction symbols, setting it apart from all other handbooks that are designed to help students in revising.
Information in Action takes a social and rhetorical approach to technical communication, integrating instruction on graphics, oral presentations, collaborative authorship, and electronic production. Using cases and examples, specially highlighted guidelines, a rich array of four-color visuals, and exercises that promote active engagement, Information in Action guides students through the document preparation process with an efficient five-step approach called the CORE method. Students begin by conducting an audience-action analysis that stresses users' needs. Next, they produce a short core document (a position paper, concept paper, or task analysis). Through evaluation, amplification, and revision, they develop this brief document into a graphically rich oral report or briefing, and finally into a complete, action-oriented document that is highly responsive to users' needs. At every stage, students are encouraged to seek feedback from trial audiences, co-authors, editors, and mentors. The text focuses not only on the documents themselves but also on the contexts of technical communication, offering a fuller treatment of ethical, social, and cultural issues than any other text now available.
As an added benefit, packaged inside every student textbook is a FREE World Wide Web Edition CD-ROM. This interactive CD-ROM contains the full text of the book as well as hundreds of contextually placed links - Weblinks - that take students to websites directly related to concepts in the text. Chapter content is expanded beyond the printed pages of the text and supplemented by the most current material available. For professors, this new CD-ROM offers a convenient way to integrate the power of the World Wide Web into their course."
Process-oriented approach with an emphasis on audience and contexts and a social-rhetorical base. More on the context (i.e., social, cultural, and ethical issues) than other texts. Innovative CORE method teaches how to write an action-oriented document based on user needs. New reorganization enhances teachability of the writing process and the CORE method. New: electronic communication integrated; inclusion of topics such as international and intercultural communication and diversity; 4-color graphics.
For courses in International Organizations.
International Organizations: Perspectives on Governance in the Twenty-First Century integrates international organizations with international relations theory by showing how international organizations matter in the worlds of the realist, the Marxist, and the feminist, as well as the liberal.
Kelly-Kate Pease wrote this book out of passion and frustration. International organizations are fascinating objects of study. They are almost organic entities-evolving, changing, adapting, and even dying. However, many texts on international organizations tend to view the lives of international organizations through liberal lenses. Liberal lenses are not exactly rose-colored, but they are colored by the implicit assumption that international organizations are inherently "good" and that their "good" efforts are often thwarted by organizational weaknesses, world politics, or self-interested governments. Liberalism has contributed much to our understanding of global politics, but it has its blind spots. Examining international organizations solely from a liberal vantage does a disservice to the study of international organizations and to its development as a discipline. It unnecessarily narrows analysis; worse, it suggests that just one view of the world exists. This text brings other theoretical perspectives to bear on the study of international organizations.
The Internet Writer's Handbook is an easily accessible reference tool for those who want to write and format effective Web documents.
Too often, writers attempt to create Web pages by simply using the same techniques they use for print documents. The Internet Writer's Handbook offers those writers specific advice on writing and designing online hypertext documents. The book has been updated to reflect the latest Web writing terms and concepts such as Web page elements, Web page design, and types of Web writing. This dynamic handbook will appeal to anyone who needs help in creating a Web page.
The Internet Writer's Handbook is an easily accessible, vital reference tool in the age of electronic communication: it teaches how to write well on-line. Too often, writers attempt to create Web pages by simply using the same techniques they use for print documents; The Internet Writer's Handbook offers those writers specific advice on writing and designing on-line hypertext documents. In addition to entries on HTML elements, researching on the Internet, e-mail style, and other such contemporary topics, the Handbook places unique emphasis on online writing techniques. The book includes up-to-the-minute research on online help, hypertext, Web page design, concise writing techniques, usability testing, interface design, and Web sites. Reflecting the author's extensive experience as a consultant in business and technical writing, this handbook will appeal to anyone who needs help in creating a Web page.
For courses in Law Enforcement Report Writing.
Figuring out that a criminal did something is one thing, but being able to document and use this documentation to help prove it is another. In this book, readers will learn a proven report writing method that can be adapted to any crime being investigated. Using numerous examples, exercise sets and quizzes, it shows the basics of how to investigate something and then write about it. This edition features a new chapter on the importance of police reports, a new chapter on the interview process and five new review and condensing exercises.
A Legal Primer for the Technical Age is an introduction to the essentials of law for technical communicators, multimedia developers, graphic designers, and other creative communicators.
This primer presents the basics of the law of agency and business organizations, contracts and intellectual property, as well as the differences between ethics and law. It will give creative communicators a general understanding of what they can expect from applied law in their workplace settings, helping them make informed choices in their professional relationships far into the future.
KEY BENEFIT:The Little, Brown Compact Handbook packages the authority and currency of its parent, The Little, Brown Handbook, in a briefer book with a comb binding and tabbed dividers. Concise and accessible, the handbook helps writers find what they need and then use what they find. Among innumerable improvements, the fourth edition features new material on writing and researching with computers and on critical thinking and reading.KEY TOPICS:A reference for writing with computers: NEW! Part II, "Computers in Writing," includes new chapters on essential computer skills, document design, and Web composition. Dozens of new computer tips and links to Web resources appear throughout the book. A reference for research writing: Practical advice focuses on working with sources and documenting them in MLA, APA, Chicago, or CBE styles. Key concerns receive expanded coverage: formulating a research question, developing a research strategy, integrating quotations, documenting sources. A reference for critical thinking and argument: NEW! Chapter links critical thinking and argument and now appears early in the book. NEW! Discussion of critical thinking and reading includes a sample annotated reading and an extended example of analyzing a Web site. Fallacies and organization of arguments receive expanded coverage. A reference for the writing process: NEW! Opening material on the writing situation includes a checklist. NEW! Writer work-in-progress on Internet communication provides examples at every stage, including first, revised, and final drafts. Well-focused chapters provide tips on invention, the thesis, revision, and more. MARKET:
Brief, accessible, and inexpensive, The Little Brown Essential Handbook, Fifth Edition, answers questions about the writing process, usage, grammar, punctuation, mechanics, document design, research writing, and documentation.
Minimal terminology, clear explanations and examples, and pointers for ESL writers help students at all levels. Extensive sections on research writing, source documentation, and document design support writers in all disciplines, both in and out of school. The convenient pocket size, four-color design, spiral binding, and numerous reference aids make the book convenient to carry and easy to consult.The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume F offers a fresh and highly teachable presentation of the varieties of world literature from the 20th century.
The editors of the anthology have sought to find economical ways to place texts within their cultural contexts, and have selected and grouped our materials in ways intended to foster connections and conversations across the anthology, between eras as well as regions.
The anthology includes epic, lyric poetry, drama, and prose narrative, with many works in their entirety. Classic major authors are presented together with more recently recovered voices as the editors seek to suggest something of the full literary dialogue of each region and period. Engaging introductions, scholarly annotations, regional maps, pronunciation guides, and illustrations provide a supportive editorial setting. An accompanying Instructor's Manual written by the editors offers practical suggestions for the classroom.
Management Principles and Practices for Technical Communicators presents theory and practice in a manner designed to help practicing managers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates.
The book covers areas of management that are specific to technical communication groups, focusing on how such groups should position themselves within larger organizations and how they should interact and communicate with other groups. These tasks and others are consistently informed by the book's four main premises: that technical communication managers need to conceptualize what they do, that they must understand and participate in the overall goals of their larger organizations, that technical communicators are developers who create products and services and not merely support, and that technical communication managers must educate peers and upper management to the value that their groups add to the development process.
Over 150 success-oriented skill-building activities will help intermediate and middle school physical education teachers "turn kids on to activity" and prepare them for a lifetime of fitness and healthy choices. The activities can be readily integrated into existing programs, require minimal set-up time, and are fun for kids of varying abilities.
For courses in Technical Writing, Technical Communication, and Business Writing, as well as a variety of technical courses where writing is emphasized.
The Pocket Guide to Technical Communication isa handy reference for on-the-job business, technical and scientific writing. Its brief format provides quick, easy-to-read answers to common writing problems. Filled with examples, it features samples of every major document type and emphasizes quality and planning throughout. This edition offers new editing exercises, expanded coverage of email, and an entirely new section on PowerPoint. Its condensed approach is ideal for instructors who want their students to spend more time writing and less time reading about writing.
For courses offered in technical fields that focus on developing presentation skills: Sometimes called: Technical Presentations, Oral Presentations, Public Speaking
This Pocket Guide presents clear practical guidelines on how to prepare and deliver all types of professional presentations. Topics covered include how to research your audience and topic, organize informative, persuasive, and occasional speeches, make and use quality graphics to enhance a presentation, deliver a speech with energy, enthusiasm, and clarity, and overcome nervousness. It is packed with information to help you craft and deliver a variety of different types of presentations, run more effective meetings, conduct more effective training sessions, and do better in job interviews.
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 design of writing, and related topics such as graphics and oral presentations. Filled with examples, it features samples of every major document type, specific writing guidelines and a writing handbook that is alphabetized for quick reference. This new edition offers a robust Companion Website and an increased emphasis on electronic communication. Through samples, guidelines and Web site support, readers will learn how to organize their ideas, write better documents, and become more effective in their technical communications.
Special pricing is available when you package The Pocket Guide to Technical Communication, 4e with any other Prentice Hall text. Contact your Prentice Hall Sales Representative for more information.
For courses in Technical Writing, Technical Communication, Writing for Technicians, and Business Writing; as well as corporate training seminars in writing.
This well-written, practical text serves perfectly as an inexpensive supplement to technical and scientific courses where students need to write documents such as reports, proposals, letters, and memos. Unique in its combination of an alphabetized handbook with brief chapters on organization and efficiency, this handy reference for on-the-job writing gives quick, easy-to-find answers to common writing problems faced in various technical and professional careers.
For courses in Technical Writing, Technical Communication, Writing for Technicians, and Business Writing-as well as corporate training seminars in writing.
Intended as the "Strunk and White" of technical writing, this book is unique in its combination of an alphabetized handbook with brief chapters on organization and efficiency. This handy reference for on-the-job writing gives quick, easy-to-find answers to common writing problems faced in various technical and professional careers. It provides immediate help for planning, drafting, and revising 16 common documents-from letters and memos to reports and proposals. (An excellent Value Pak opportunity!)
For upper-level courses in Technical Communication and Professional Writing.
Portfolios for Technical and Professional Communicators is a short, practical guide that discusses how to create professional paper and electronic portfolios. Designed for technical communication and professional writing students, it covers the portfolio-building process and reinforces text concepts using guidelines, exercises, assignments and student examples. It covers design and content issues important to technical and professional communicators, and integrates examples specific to the profession. Unique chapters offer coverage of portfolios and legal issues, portfolios and the job search, and how to use portfolios in interviews and on the job.
For 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 Writing 6e is the ideal text to prepare students for the type of writing and communication they will need to master to succeed in their careers.
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.
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 solving is a multidimensional process, each chapter begins with a short scenario case study that deals with theoretical or applied issues of technical and professional communication. The problem is carried through its development and resolution, thereby preparing students to deal appropriately and successfully in the professional world.
Professional Writing and Rhetoric is a disciplinary reader that introduces students to professional writing by inviting them into conversations about the field by people in the field.
Intended for undergraduates and entry-level masters students who are majoring, minoring, or getting certificates in professional writing studies, Professional Writing and Rhetoric is an edited reader that makes the field's theoretical discussions accessible to these students. Addressing a growing need as the field expands "up" from service-oriented courses and "down" from advanced graduate programs, it fills an important gap in the books currently available within professional writing studies.
This text guides students into the discussions that continue to form this relatively young field by (1) organizing readings rhetorically, (2) including several readings that are regularly cited in the field's literatures, (3) selecting readings that are accessible to students, and (4) offering pedagogical devices that aid comprehension and encourage critical reflection. The aim is not to present a "greatest hits of the field," nor to direct students' thinking and practice toward the hottest new theories, nor to challenge the thinking of those already comfortably in the field. Instead, older and newer selections are intermixed within a rhetorical framework to encourage students to make connections across readings, promote reflective rhetorical practice, stimulate discussion, and encourage students to become co-inquirers within the discipline.
writers can begin their writing processes directly on PWO, in many sections where they can fill out forms for research, planning, or feedback and can use e-mail functions to share their work with others. "The Principles" section provides extensive coverage of important and current topics: social and cultural issues, ethics, reader-orientation, argument and persuasion, usability testing, and writing online. "The Resources" section includes links to search engines, instruction on searching online, sources for business and technical writing research, coverage of online documentation, and job and career resources. The first Web book provides an innovative approach to the theory and practice of writing for the workplace and allows readers to work with the medium that is becoming increasingly dominant in the real world.
Professional Writing Online is not a book, but an instructional website, and it is the first course material intended for applied writing courses that makes full use of the dynamic capabilities of the World Wide Web.
The flexibility the Web provides important advantages as a teaching tool over conventional textbooks, and is completely autonomous.
Professional Writing Online offers four primary points of entry, which correspond to the four major sections of the site: Projects, Documents, Principles, and Resources. The Projects section provides extended case studies and shorter exercises for use inside and outside the classroom. The Documents section provides a wealth of real-world examples of a variety of document types. The Principles section offers description and guidance on the topics that are integral to an applied writing course. The Resources section provides teachers and students with additional materials that will be useful in the teaching and practicing of writing on the job. These sections are interlinked so students can move back and forth among the sections to find what they need in focusing on a particular topic.
Overall, Professional Writing Online provides far more material than a conventional textbook and provides additional links to an abundance of related material on the World Wide Web.
For undergraduate/graduate-level courses in Technical Writing.
This text examines the current trends in proposal writing-the important work of the professionals who develop them, effects of the global economy, advances in computer technology, and communications improvements. A focus on the real-world of business offers students information to help them acquire the basic skills, and some advanced skills, to develop any type of proposal.
For undergraduate/graduate courses in Technical Writing and Business Writing or wherever proposal writing must be learned.
Using real models, this applied text teaches students how to unite academic concepts with business formats to construct written proposals for any field. It demonstrates the core aspects of proposal writing that recur in different disciplines and in documents of different sizes, and enables students to understand the strategy involved in each.
This text package includes the most thorough combination of background materials and writing exercises for a public relations writing course.
Public Relations Writing emphasizes the integration of macro-level strategic thinking and micro-level understanding of organizational culture, audiences, media use, and the writing strategies and tools needed to produce effective public relations materials.
This comprehensive text begins with a discussion of the principles of research, planning, ethics, organizational culture, law, and design - the foundations that underlie all public relations writing. Specific writing approaches are then presented. Topics include news and features, writing for print and broadcast, persuasive communications, newsletters and employee communication, annual reports, brochures, direct mail, and the Internet.
Other relevant coverage includes a chapter on global communication (including writing for the World Wide Web) and a "capstone" events chapter that details event planning and writing for exhibits, speeches and collateral materials. The accompanying workbook provides four unique clients for students to apply the concepts in the text to real-life client requirements.
For courses in Report Writing for Law Enforcement and Corrections Recruits and Officers. This easy to use workbook is designed to improve the ability of law enforcement professionals to write effectively. Each section presents a brief rule relating to the topic being covered and is accompanied by examples and application exercises.
Designed to augment any course requiring writing and the use of secondary source material, Research Writing Simplified isolates the skills related to research and moves students through a series of learning activities that provide practice and reinforcement.
The fourth edition has been updated to reflect the electronic revolution taking place in research, including information on Internet searches, electronic database searches, and documentation conventions for all forms of electronic sources. A new section on usage and basic sentence grammar makes the text even more versatile, and updated APA and MLA sections provide the latest information on both guidelines. Its concise format and low cost make this an appealing resource for both students and instructors working on research papers.
Very brief (64 pages) research paper guide designed to augment any courses requiring writing and the use of secondary source material. Includes exercises for student practice.
Designed to augment any course requiring writing and the use of secondary source material, Research Writing Simplified isolates the skills related to research and moves students through a series of learning activities that provide practice and reinforcement.
Research Writing Simplified goes beyond explanations and examples to offer focused, sequenced practice in the skills and conventions of research writing. Such practice includes isolated exercises on summarizing, paraphrasing, correctly introducing and formatting direct quotations, the various options for in-text documentation, and correct format of works cited/reference pages. These practice exercises can be the basis of in-class instruction, or they can be assigned as homework. Because selected answers for all exercises are provided, students can also use the text as a self-teaching guide. This text also offers practical advice and general guidance on how to write papers requiring research.
The fifth edition has been updated to reflect the electronic revolution taking place in research, including information on Internet searches, electronic database searches, and documentation conventions for all forms of electronic sources. A new section on usage and basic sentence grammar makes the text even more versatile, and updated APA and MLA sections provide the latest information on both guidelines. Its concise format and low cost make this an appealing resource for both students and instructors working on research papers.As its title implies, this book deals with revising, not with original composition. In business writing, where a first draft often emerges quickly under the pressures of facts, figures, and deadlines, revision is typically the major part of a writing task, and collaborative revision often produces the final document. Revising Business Prose provides detailed revision guidance and a collaborative approach to writing easily applied to writing in business, industry, government, and academics. Based on the premise that bad writing in organizations imitates the bureaucratic style - "The Official Style," as it's called here - this book shows students how to transform stilted, dense prose into plain English. An accompanying 40-minute Revising Business Prose Video, as well as a Set of Interactive Revision Exercises, are available from Rhetorica, Inc. for an additional fee.
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 actual relationships, situations, and the intangible elements that affect workplace writing and in so doing develop critical thinking abilities in conjunction with occasions to practice realistic workplace writing. Giving students the opportunity to defend their rhetorical choices also makes students feel empowered about their writing - a skill they need in the workplace. In addition to five scenarios in each chapter, the text includes brief descriptive overviews of the major topics typically covered in technical communication courses which enables the book to be used as the sole book in a technical communication course.
Grounded in the practices of ethical deliberation and civic action, this text creates a resource for helping technical and professional communication students and teachers implement service-learning projects in campus and larger communities.
Designed for a wide-ranging audience, Service-Learning in Technical and Professional Communication address both advanced and beginning students and both veteran service-learning teachers and those trying it for the first time.
The text begins with three chapters that define and explain the authors' approach to service-learning and develop a rhetorical toolbox for implementing this approach. The remainder of the book is loosely organized around the process of developing, executing, and evaluating service-learning projects. These "process" chapters teach rhetorical strategies, ethical concerns, genre conventions, and style principles in an integrated, contextualized way. Discussions of rhetoric and ethics are supplemented with heuristics for analyzing the larger cultural effects of service-learning projects.
A Short Guide to Writing About Art, 6/E, the best-selling text of its kind, encourages students to form their own opinions about art, and then equips them with the tools they need to write effective essays. This handy guide addresses a wealth of fundamental matters, including description versus analysis; the value of peer review; documenting sources; and editing the final essay.
A fast-paced guide to writing clear, concise, readable technical documents and giving compelling technical presentations
This unique anthology was created with a simple principle in mind: to offer the best advice from the best sources about the most important issues business and technical writers face every day.
Strategies for Business and Technical Writing teaches effective writing for the world of work. Reading selections from seasoned professionals in business, technical, and academic fields provide examples, models, and sound advice for writers at any level. Covering such topics as audience analysis, language use and misuse, writing and revision processes, and the influence of technology on communication in the working world, this book will appeal to both practical-minded students and professionals already working in business, technology, and industry.
In addition to helping students overcome common writing problems, this book includes discussion of specific documents, including résumés, letters, memos, e-mail, reports, and proposals. Readers will learn to become better writers using specific techniques employed by successful communicators who are acknowledged leaders in their fields.
Strategies for Business and Technical Writing teaches effective writing for the world of work, offering advice from reputable sources about the most important issues in business and technical writing. The reading selections, written by seasoned professionals in the business world, teach professional writing, simultaneously illustrating the genre. Covering such topics as audience analysis, non-biased word choice, the revision process, and the dynamics of written communications within business, this book will appeal to practical-minded instructors, students, and professionals already working in business and technical occupations.
In addition to touching on broad problems of writing, this book includes comprehensive discussions of specific documents, including chronological and functional résumés, letters of application, letters that sell, memos, e-mail, reports, and proposals. Students learn the specific techniques used by successful executives in business and industry who communicate information as part of their jobs.
This unique anthology uses reading selections from seasoned professionals in business, technical, and academic fields to serve as examples and models and provide sound advice for writers at any level.
Strategies for Business and Technical Writing teaches effective writing for the world of work and was created with a simple principle in mind: help readers become better writers using specific techniques employed by successful communicators who are acknowledged leaders in their fields. Covering such topics as audience analysis, language use and misuse, writing and revision processes, and the influence of technology on communication in the working world, this book will appeal to both practical-minded students and professionals already working in business, technology, and industry.
Nearly 30 years ago, John Horton Conway introduced a new way to construct numbers. Donald E. Knuth, in appreciation of this revolutionary system, took a week off from work on The Art of Computer Programming to write an introduction to Conway's method. Never content with the ordinary, Knuth wrote this introduction as a work of fiction--a novelette. If not a steamy romance, the book nonetheless shows how a young couple turned on to pure mathematics and found total happiness.
The book's primary aim, Knuth explains in a postscript, is not so much to teach Conway's theory as "to teach how one might go about developing such a theory." He continues: "Therefore, as the two characters in this book gradually explore and build up Conway's number system, I have recorded their false starts and frustrations as well as their good ideas. I wanted to give a reasonably faithful portrayal of the important principles, techniques, joys, passions, and philosophy of mathematics, so I wrote the story as I was actually doing the research myself."... It is an astonishing feat of legerdemain. An empty hat rests on a table made of a few axioms of standard set theory. Conway waves two simple rules in the air, then reaches into almost nothing and pulls out an infinitely rich tapestry of numbers that form a real and closed field. Every real number is surrounded by a host of new numbers that lie closer to it than any other "real" value does. The system is truly "surreal." quoted from Martin Gardner, Mathematical Magic Show, pp. 16--19Surreal Numbers, now in its 13th printing, will appeal to anyone who might enjoy an engaging dialogue on abstract mathematical ideas, and who might wish to experience how new mathematics is created.
For courses in Introductory Technical Communication.
Technical Communication: A Practical Approach 7e emphasizes one simple principle- you learn to write better by doing as much writing as possible. Using numbered guidelines and an ABC format, the book shows how to write a variety of technical documents and gets students practicing at the beginning of the book. This edition features new material on modular writing, a new chapter on collaborative writing and a comprehensive case study that reflects globalization and ethics issues.
Technical Communication is the premier resource for introductory technical communication, combining practical applications and clear writing with attention to the latest developments in the field.
Ten editions ago, John Lannon's Technical Communication changed the study of technical communication, and in a new edition, the book reinvents the study of today's communication. Addressing a wide range of interests for students from a variety of majors, the Eleventh Edition of Technical Communication has been updated and streamlined throughout and includes a variety of new Checklists and Guidelines, as well as a unique chapter focused on usability.
Rhetorical principles are explained, illustrated, and applied to an array of documents, from brief memos and summaries to formal reports and proposals. The emphasis on current topics like technology, global communication, working in teams, and usability underscores the realities of technical communication today. Exercises incorporated throughout the text enable students to better understand the skills necessary both in college and in the workplace.
Technical Communication, 8/e (formerly Technical Writing) is a comprehensive, accessible introduction to technical and professional communication that deftly responds to the needs of the workplace today. Addressing a wide range of interests for classes in which students from a variety of majors are enrolled, Technical Communication, 8/e, combines practical applications with clear writing and examples. Rhetorical principles are explained, illustrated, and applied to an array of documents, from brief memos and summaries to formal reports and proposals. Coverage of such topics as document design, electronic communication, and oral presentations reflect the realm of technical communication today. Exercises, incorporated throughout the text, enable students to better understand the skills necessary both in college and in the workplace. While writing remains a central component of this text, the title has been changed to reflect the focus on the whole range of communication tasks in today's workplace-from managing collaborative groups to designing pages for the World Wide Web.
The bestselling text of its kind, Lannon's Technical Communication, Tenth Edition, is the premier resource for introductory technical communication, combining a pragmatic and accessible approach to the subject with attention to the latest developments in the field, and is now combined with a print booklet comprising over 55 model technical communication documents.
Addressing a wide range of interests for students from a variety of majors, the new edition of Technical Communication has an expanded emphasis on the realities of the workplace reflected in a new feature, On the Job, as well as expanded content throughout focusing on what goes on in the workplace day-to-day. As always, Technical Communication combines practical applications with clear writing and examples. Rhetorical principles are explained, illustrated, and applied to an array of documents, from brief memos and summaries to formal reports and proposals. Emphasis on current topics like technology, working in teams, and useability underlines the realities of technical communication today. Exercises incorporated throughout the text enable students to better understand the skills necessary both in college and in the workplace.
Long the standard in the industry, this text continues to lead in its treatment of the issues that confront students in today's technical communication classes-and now it is packaged with a valuable collection of additional sample documents.
For Technical Writing, Professional Writing, Report Writing, Engineering, Communications, and English courses at the undergraduate level.
Bridging the gap between academia and the professional world, this functional text readies students for their first professional employment as a practicing technical professional by empowering them with effective, proven communication skills. Developing the principles of technical writing, it provides a sound understanding of the elements of various types of engineering documents, scientific documents, and oral presentations that they will be expected to know upon graduation. Building upon acquired skills in grammar, sentence structure and syntax, it prepares students with meaningful lessons on the protocol, sense of audience, and importance of understanding the overall purpose of the technical documentation process.
TheTechnical Communication Handbook is a comprehensive reference guide with coverage of the major genres and strategies for creating and editing technical documents.
The Technical Communication Handbook is a reference for technical communication students at all levels, being used independently or in conjunction with a primary text, as well as practicing technical communicators and other writers in the technical fields and workplace.
This handbook boasts a full-color design, extensively annotated model documents, and coverage of current topics in intellectual property, digital communication, collaboration, and accessibility issues. Additionally, the coverage of document design, research, technical editing, and citation models for all major technical documentation styles, general writing and grammar advice makes The Technical Communication Handbook a life-long companion for technical communicators.
Technical Communication in the Twenty-First Century (TCTC) will prepare students to be successful writers and readers of technical communication, regardless of their career path. This text features a wealth of interesting examples, applications, and cases that engage the student and demonstrate both effective and flawed communication. An emphasis is placed on analyzing why something worked or did not work as well as on how to produce the appropriate communication. TCTC's problem-solving approach asks students to think rhetorically about writing situations through detailed explanations and specific examples. The Problem-Solving Approach (PSA) provides students with a useful heuristic to guide them through the process of analyzing a variety of communication situations and solving workplace communication problems.
For courses in Business Writing and Technical Communication.
Technical Communication in the Twenty-First Century (TCTC) prepares students to be successful writers and readers of technical communication, regardless of their career path. Featuring a wealth of examples and cases, it emphasizes problem-solving, collaboration, visual rhetoric and usability. Its approach analyzes why something worked or did not work, as well as how to produce the appropriate communication. Now available with the MyTechCommLab online learning tool, this edition features more focus on transnational communication, forty-five new case studies, and new information on the relationship between technology and communication.
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Pearson's MyTechCommLab has been completely reorganized, with a wealth of new content specific to technical communication, including a completely new section on document design and graphics, a tutorial on writing formal reports, and new model documents and activities!
Technical Communication Todayremains the only text to fully centralize the computer in the technical workplace, presenting how writers use computers throughout their communication process.
Writers use their computers to help them think, research, compose, design, and edit. Not only is Technical Communication Today firmly rooted in core rhetorical principles, but the text also presents computers as thinking tools that powerfully influence how we develop, produce, design, and deliver technical documents and presentations.
Clear instruction not only describes technical documents, but also guides the reader through the activity of producing them. Technical Communication Today helps communicators draft and design documents, prepare material for print and Web publication, and make oral presentations; by bringing computers to the foreground as thinking tools, it accurately reflects the modern day computer-centered technical workplace.
Technical Communication Today speaks to today's students and how they expect to learn information. Instructional narrative is "chunked," so that readable portions of text are combined with graphics. Not only does this presentation facilitate learning, but it also models the way today's technical documents should be designed. Additionally, the chunked presentation integrates an awareness of how documents are read-often "raided" by readers seeking the information they need. By mirroring these processes in its content and structure, Technical Communication Today offers a higher level of accessibility for readers.
Technical Communication Todayremains the only text to fully centralize the computer in the technical workplace, presenting how it is used throughout today's communication process.
The text is based on a solid core of rhetorical principles. Clear instruction not only describes technical documents, but it guides the user through the activity of producing them. Technical Communication Today foregrounds computers as a thinking tool-helping communicators to draft and design documents, prepare material for print and Web publication, and make oral presentations. It more accurately reflects the modern day computer-centered technical workplace.
Technical Communication Today epitomizes the shift in technical communication from literal-linear created to visual-spatial created documents. This evolution, which has been provoked by the ubiquity of the computer as a communication tool, is changing fundamental writing and reading processes. The text has been designed using the idea of "chunking," where readable portions of text are combined with graphics. Not only does this concept facilitate learning, but it models the way today's technical documents should be designed. Its presentation of teaching readers how to write integrates a new awareness of how documents are read-by "raiding" for the information needed. The author wrote the text with the presumption that users are researching, organizing, drafting, designing, and revising directly on their computer screens. By mirroring these processes in its content and structure, Technical Communication Today offers a higher level of accessibility for readers.
Technical Communication Today is the first text to incorporate the use of computers into every aspect of technical communication.
Based on a solid core of rhetorical principles, Technical Communication Todayforegrounds how computers help students both think and write and shows them how this tool can help them draft and design documents, collaborate, prepare material for print and Web publication, and make oral presentations. Its goal is to offer a new kind of text, which more accurately reflects the modern day computer-centered workplace.
The text reflects an ongoing evolution in technical communication from literal-linear created to visual-spatial created documents. Its presentation of teaching students how to write integrates a new awareness of how readers read-by "raiding" documents for the information they need. This evolution, which has been provoked by the ubiquitousness of the computer as a communication tool, is changing fundamental writing and reading processes. It is these processes that Technical Communication Today attempts to reflect in its content and structure and that offer a high degree of accessibility for students.
Technical Communication Today is the first text to incorporate the use of computers into every aspect of technical communication.
Based on a solid core of rhetorical principles, Technical Communication Todayforegrounds how computers help students both think and write and shows them how this tool can help them draft and design documents, collaborate, prepare material for print and Web publication, and make oral presentations. Its goal is to offer a new kind of text, which more accurately reflects the modern day computer-centered workplace.
The text reflects an ongoing evolution in technical communication from literal-linear created to visual-spatial created documents. Its presentation of teaching students how to write integrates a new awareness of how readers read-by "raiding" documents for the information they need. This evolution, which has been provoked by the ubiquitousness of the computer as a communication tool, is changing fundamental writing and reading processes. It is these processes that Technical Communication Today attempts to reflect in its content and structure and that offer a high degree of accessibility for students.
Fromerly, 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, bloggs) coupled with scenarios to bring to life real-world challenges, the text allows students to write successfully. Updated technology tips include the most up-to-date software applications (MicroSoft Word 2007 and Vista 2007). The authors' student-friendly style engages students in the writing process and encourages hands-on application as well as discussions about ethics, audience identification, electronic communication, and the role of technical writing in the workplace.
The Technical Communicator's Handbook offers concise discussions of more than 300 essential topics in technical communication for students and practicing professionals in a variety of technical disciplines. The handbook's format - spiral binding and convenient tabs - and clear style make it particularly accessible, while its systematic organization and comprehensive approach make it equally useful as a classroom teaching tool or a quick reference for technical writers.
The Technical Communicator's Handbook begins with five sections covering the essential topics of the technical communication process from planning to production. The remaining four sections cover topics all technical writers need to know to succeed in their fields, including Internet use, correspondence, and a wide variety of technical documents. Unique qualities of this handbook include: discussions of brainstorming, mind mapping, and freewriting; evaluating Internet sources; style, tone, and bias; designing and illustrating on-line as well as print documents; and major editing strategies. Complete sections are devoted to using the Internet and developing a wide variety of interpersonal skills. Lists of practical tips and computer tools provide expert advice to students and professionals alike. Both the tips and the section-by-section bibliographies reflect the input of practicing professionals.
For courses in Technical Writing (Introductory level) or Advanced Composition courses in Vocational Education/Engineering Technology Programs.
This manual identifies and explores the documentation standards and basic skills that are used to develop and produce technical projects. It examines both industrial/corporate and academic applications of technical writing fundamentals-e.g., assembly instructions, maintenance manuals, and college papers. It emphasizes the design and packaging of "integrated texts" that incorporate all of their media as a finished product.
This market-leading text has been thoroughly revised to reflect recent changes in technology, workplace practices and the global marketplace. The book progresses from concepts and basic copyediting to comprehensive editing, management and production issues. Coverage now includes a new chapter on client projects.
Technical Editing takes a comprehensive approach to editing and defining editorial responsibility in terms of information design and the overall effectiveness of a document in helping readers understand and complete tasks. Expanding the concept of editing from a narrow focus on sentence-level revisions for correctness, this book encourages students to think about the effects of word choices, sentences, organization and design. Students learn that the measure of a "good" document is in part outside that document, in the document's "match" to the users' needs and the author's goals.
The textbook with its supplementary Web site and instructor's manual offers a complete editing course, including materials for daily workshops and discussion and longer documents for graded assignments. In a password-protected portion of the Web site, instructors can also retrieve illustrations of edited versions as well as suggested responses to daily activities. Both focused and flexible, Technical Editing includes assignments carefully crafted to develop specific editing competencies and modular chapters that allow instructors to adapt the text to meet their own course goals and methods.For courses in Technical Editing.
With a focus on both language and technology, Technical Editing: Products & Processes guides the technical editing student through each level of editing, each stage of becoming an editor, and each aspect of production after the formal editing is complete. From its realistic scenarios to self-diagnostic exercises, this book is designed to be hands-on-consistently helping students assess and develop their own technical editing skills. Unlike other books, its goal is to move beyond grammar and style to encompass technology issues that reflect the expanding role of the technical editor in the workplace.
This market-leading text, which reflects recent changes in technology, workplace practices and the global marketplace, progresses from concepts and basic copyediting to comprehensive editing, management and production issues. Technical Editing approaches editing comprehensively, defining editorial responsibility not as sentence-level revisions for correctness but rather in terms of information design and the overall effectiveness of a document in helping readers understand and complete tasks. Students learn that the measure of a "good" document is in part outside that document, in the document's "match" to the users' needs and the author's goals.
For courses in technical editing. Best-seller. Comprehensive practical approach. Defines editorial responsibility in terms of overall document effectiveness, not just correcting grammar. New: up-to-date coverage of technology, info on global concerns, Chapter 21 on legal and ethical issues.
For courses in Technical Writing, Business Communication, and Professional Writing.
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'll encounter on the job. The authors' student-friendly style engages students in the writing process and encourages hands-on application as well as discussions about ethics, audience identification, electronic communication, and the role of technical writing in the workplace.
For undergraduate-level courses in Technical Writing, Business Communication, Professional Communication, and Freshman Composition with a company emphasis.
Technical Writing: A Practical Approach offers an easy-to-use approach towards learning the fundamentals of technical writing. The author's writing style is reader-friendly, and engages the student by providing a comprehensive overview of current topics in technical writing.
This text builds on the information that students present and learn for themselves as they progress through the text. The basics of writing comprise Unit 1; Unit 2 focuses on business and technical writing documents; Unit 3 creates two polished multi-sectioned documents in Chapter 7 and 8.
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 learned in a Basic Composition course (summary, process, analysis, and persuasion) and apply them in different kinds of technical documents. Direct practical explanations, copious real-world examples, and a variety of "role-playing" exercises lead students through the process of document production and assessment-or what the author calls "transactional" writing: getting another person to read one's material, presenting such material clearly and accurately, and adhering to standards of format acceptable in the field. Unlike most other texts (which focus on the writing needs in the executive domain of the major corporation only), this guide covers a variety of non-corporate working environments that also require skill in technical communications (e.g., social service agencies, institutions, and small businesses).
For courses in Technical Writing.
This concise and cumulative guide shows students the art of technical writing for a variety of contexts and institutions. Using examples from the business and non-corporate world, the book emphasizes transactional writing through practical explanations, real-world examples, and a variety of "role-playing" exercises. Each section builds on the next as readers learn a variety of models of style and format. This edition features a stronger emphasis on electronic communication, integrated coverage of ethics, and more explanation of how to create technical documents that produce concrete results.
For 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 learned in a Basic Composition course (summary, process, analysis, and persuasion) and apply them in different kinds of technical documents. Direct practical explanations, copious real-world examples, and a variety of role-playing exercises lead students through the process of document production and assessmentor what the author calls transactional writing: getting another person to read one's material, presenting such material clearly and accurately, and adhering to standards of format acceptable in the field. Unlike most other texts (which focus on the writing needs in the executive domain of the major corporation only), this guide covers a variety of non-corporate working environments that also require skill in technical communications (e.g., social service agencies, institutions, and small businesses).
Part of the new Allyn & Bacon Series in Technical Communication, Technical Writing Style is equally appropriate as a core text or as a supplement. This text offers the most current and comprehensive instruction available in achieving an effective style in technical docu- ments. It shows that technical prose style varies from the highly formal to the colloquial, from the pretentious to the plain, and it demonstrates the many stylistic strategies writers should consider for every technical document they write.
Among the major topics included are: style and technical writing style; audiences and discourse communities; persuasion through style; diction; style in sentences and paragraphs; tone; bias; ethics; and editing for style. Throughout, engaging real-world case studies and numerous examples reinforce the author's discussion of effective and ineffective technical prose styles.
For undergraduate-level courses in Technical Writing, Business Communication, Professional Communication, and Freshman Composition with a company emphasis.
This text offers an easy-to-use approach towards learning the fundamentals of technical writing. The authors writing style is reader-friendly, and engages the student by providing a comprehensive overview of current topics in technical writing.
Technical Writing: Principles, Strategies and Readingsoffers 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 articles from professional journals and Web sites-which constitute about one-fourth of the text-offer insight and advice on specific communication topics, including writing for the Web. Strategy Boxes in each chapter also introduce students to important subjects related to technical communication, such as voice mail and videoconferencing.
Each concise and self-contained instructional unit includes extended models and exercises which can be used in class or for collaborative or homework assignments. Students who study technical writing as part of their career preparation in science, business, engineering, social services and technical fields will find this text particularly useful.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 sites-which constitute about one-fourth of the text-offer insight and advice on specific communication topics, including writing for the Web. Strategy Boxes in each chapter also introduce students to important subjects related to technical communication, such as voice mail and videoconferencing.
Each concise and self-contained instructional unit includes extended models and exercises which can be used in class or for collaborative or homework assignments. Students who study technical writing as part of their career preparation in science, business, engineering, social services, and technical fields will find this text particularly useful.
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 style engages students in the writing process and encourages hands-on application as well as discussions about ethics, audience identification, electronic communication, and the role of technical writing in the workplace.
For courses in Technical Writing, Business Communication, and Professional Writing.
This text 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 style engages students in the writing process and encourages hands-on application as well as discussions about ethics, audience identification, electronic communication, and the role of technical writing in the workplace.
Designed for courses in Technical or Report Writing in Departments of English, Engineering, or Technology, this complete, "on-the-job" exploration of both written and oral communication focuses on the most effective techniques for the types of communications most frequently encountered in today's business world. It introduces readers to the employees of two technically oriented companies, the type of work they perform, and some typical situations that call for them to communicate with clients, suppliers, and each other. The Fifth Edition updates coverage to more accurately reflect the techniques used to write today's professional correspondences and reports.
For courses in Technical or Report Writing in Departments of English, Engineering, or Technology.
This complete, "on-the-job" exploration of both written and oral communication focuses on the most effective techniques for the types of communications most frequently encountered in today's business world. It introduces readers to the employees of two technically oriented companies, the type of work they perform, and some typical situations that call for them to communicate with clients, suppliers, and each other. The Sixth Edition updates coverage to more accurately reflect the techniques used to write today's professional correspondences and reports.
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This revised edition of Introducing Cultural Studies gives a systematic overview of the concepts, theories and latest research in the expanding field of Cultural Studies. Reinforcing the interdisciplinary nature of Cultural Studies, the text begins with a presentation of cultural theory and then looks at different dimensions of culture in detail, including coverage of important topics like space, time, politics, the body and visual culture.
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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 coverage to all major topics of professional communication in an accessible and flexible style. Each chapter opens with real-life scenarios, offers before and after writing samples, includes writer's reflections and ends with application and learning exercises. Checklists for each communication channel and a grammar handbook round out the many learning features of this text. An early chapter on electronic communication prepares students for today's business environment and goes beyond e-mail and Web sites to include in-depth coverage of Web logs (blogs), Instant Messaging, and on-line help.
For courses in Oral Communication.
Studies reveal that 80% or more of work-related communication in trade and industrial settings is handled in conversation. Designed to help students identify and improve in-service oral communication skills, this manual explores the complexities and realities of communication in the workplace and the often subtle difficulties that may not be apparent.
Workplace Communications: The Basics is the first text specifically intended for applied writing courses in community college and other settings where many students are academically under-prepared and therefore intimidated by lengthy, theory-intensive tests.
This text focuses instead on the basics of workplace writing by emphasizing practical applications. Written in a simple, conversational style, Workplace Communications is designed to be both accessible and useful, incorporating numerous examples, illustrations, and exercises. The new edition includes greatly increased coverage of technology in all areas of work-related communication including the job search, correspondence, oral communication, and research.
Workplace Communications: The Basicsis the first text specifically intended for applied writing courses in community college and other settings where many students are academically under-prepared and therefore intimidated by lengthy, theory-intensive tests.
This text focuses instead on the basics of workplace writing by emphasizing practical applications. Written in a simple, conversational style, Workplace Communications is designed to be both accessible and useful, incorporating numerous examples, illustrations, and exercises. The new edition includes greatly increased coverage of technology in all areas of work-related communication including the job search, correspondence, oral communication, and research.
Workplace Communications: The Basics is the first text specifically intended for applied writing courses in community college and other settings where many students are academically underprepared and therefore intimidated by lengthy, theory-intensive tests. This text focuses instead on the basics of workplace writing by emphasizing practical applications. Written in a simple, conversational style, Workplace Communications is designed to be both accessible and useful, incorporating numerous examples, illustrations, and exercises.
For courses in business writing, business communication, professional writing and technical communication.
This modern text outlines a simple solution for producing all forms of workplace communication-one that focuses on how to effectively plan, package and perfect oral and written communications. Its accessible, four-color design is illustrated with interesting scenarios and examples featuring real people, real communication challenges and real resolutions to those challenges. With its contemporary approach, it covers trends for electronic (includes Microsoft 2007 Technology Tips) , hard-copy and oral communications and includes substantive illustrations that show before/after samples and writer annotations. Innovative end-of-chapter exercises are designed for a variety of learners and include degree-specific assignments that reinforce career-related communication techniques.
Applies the process of writing to the workplace. Considers brainstorming techniques, word choice, audience analysis, grammar, sentence and paragraph construction, illustrations and organization. Emphasis is on strategies and their impact, not on external format. Covers oral presentation and the automated office.
The Writer's Pocket Handbook-is a very brief spiral-bound handbook - an inexpensive, handy, yet complete reference manual for use in composing papers in all disciplines.
Not just a style manual, The Writer's Pocket Handbook begins with "Writing with Purpose," a unique section in a handbook of this size, which provides information on the rhetorical situation in order to contextualize the reference material that follows. Process-oriented, authoritative, practical, filled with instructive, hand-edited examples, including the latest 1998 MLA and 2001 APA recommendations for documenting electronic sources, The Writer's Pocket Handbook is presented in the same clear, accessible, and polished style that has made such a success of Rosa and Eschholz's The Writer's Brief Handbook.
This is the first collection of narratives by practicing technical communicators telling their own personal stories about the workplace and their lives on and off the job.
The stories vividly demonstrate the unique power of narrative as a teaching and learning tool. Unlike fabricated cases, these real-life narratives show new and veteran technical writers at work on the job, dealing with tasks, clients, and co-workers, and revealing their insights, values, and attitudes about their work. The stories also show the skills required in the profession and the ethical and other issues raised in the course of the workday.
Writing for Law Enforcement is the only book about effective writing directed specifically to the student of criminal justice and the law enforcement professional. It is intended to be used as a supplement or reference text for the array of courses offered in these departments. The underlying premise of the text recognizes that paperwork is commonly perceived as drudgery among law enforcement professionals, but that good writing is essential to building good cases and supporting of various legal actions. To that end, the text provides concise, practical chapters on conducting interviews, writing various kinds of investigative reports, writing several types of memos, taking essay exams, and giving oral presentations.
Writing for the Technical Professions introduces technical writing in the context of the problem solving, multi-genre-writing demands of the actual technical workplace.
This concise and compelling text emphasizes problem solving techniques for communication situations that technical professionals encounter every day and is intended as a comprehensive primary text for introductory technical communication courses. Its hands-on, practical approach to writing and design make it a useful reference tool.
For any level course that deals with visual arts (art studio, painting sculpting, collage, drawing, graphic arts, or history, architecture, communications, film and theater.)
Written in a reader-friendly style interlaced with vivid examples, this text details a comprehensive and concise methodology for the writing that students in the visual arts and those entering the professional world encounter-academic papers, resumes, letters of application, manifestos, press releases, and grants. Emphasizes that students' (or professionals') art, in itself, will not always speak for them, and that both students and professionals must, therefore, learn to articulate their concepts and ideas, and to argue for, and earn, their place in the world of art.
Practical, applied, and up-to-the-minute, Writing for the Health Professions teaches students, healthcare professionals, and professional writers the essential skills in medical and health communications.
Drawing on her extensive experience as a nurse, cardio-pulmonary technician, medical writer, and writing teacher, Barbara Heifferon addresses the communications requirements of the healthcare professions and those who write in these high-tech fields. This comprehensive text covers writing situations and documents common in hospitals, clinics, HMOs, health insurance companies, public health campaigns, and other healthcare environments. Special attention is given to visual and electronic forms of communication, including Web sites and multimedia productions.
This rhetorical, multi-disciplinary guide teaches the major genres of science writing, including research reports, grant proposals, conference presentations, and a variety of forms of public communication.
Writing in the Sciences combines a descriptive approach-helping students to recognize distinctive features of common genres in their fields-with a rhetorical focus-helping them to analyze how, why, and for whom texts are created by scientists. Multiple samples from real research cases illustrate a range of scientific disciplines and audiences for scientific research, along with corresponding differences in focus, arrangement, style, and other rhetorical dimensions. Comparisons among disciplines provide the opportunity for students to identify common conventions in science and investigate variation across fields.
This rhetorical, multi-disciplinary guide teaches the major genres of science writing, including research reports, grant proposals, conference presentations, and a variety of forms of public communication.
Writing in the Sciences combines a descriptive approach-helping students to recognize distinctive features of common genres in their fields-with a rhetorical focus-helping them to analyze how, why, and for whom texts are created by scientists. Multiple samples from real research cases illustrate a range of scientific disciplines and audiences for scientific research, along with the corresponding differences in focus, arrangement, style, and other rhetorical dimensions. Comparisons among disciplines provide the opportunity for students to identify common conventions in science and investigate variation across fields.
Part of the Allyn & Bacon series in technical communication, Writing Software Documentation features a step-by-step strategy to writing and describing procedures.
This task-oriented book is designed to support both college students taking a course and professionals working in the field. Teaching apparatus includes complete programs for students to work on and a full set of project tracking forms, as well as a broad range of examples including Windows-style pages and screens and award-winning examples from STC competitions.
Writing with a Computer emphasizes how computers can help users to writers write more efficiently and effectively. Recognizing that the majority of writers only take advantage of about 10% of the functionality of most modern word processors, the text helps writers explore how other functions of word processors can help them write better and faster. Writing with a Computer also provides detailed discussions of locating, evaluating, and organizing information available on the Internet - with an emphasis on the World Wide Web. Its primary goal is to explore how technology can support the range of composing and information gathering processes that writers use to create new documents. The book focuses on how computers help writers generate ideas; collect and evaluate information; draft, review, revise, and edit text; and design documents; advice on how to keep a computer in good working order as well as how to solve problems is also included. Providing clear guidance on the strengths and weaknesses of modern word processors and operating systems, Writing with a Computer emphasizes how computers can help serve the needs of writers rather than placing that emphasis on software features.
For courses in Web Writing and Web Design.
XHTML/CSS Basics for Web Writers is a hands-on textbook that combines explanations of Web design principles and techniques with simple instructions for creating accurate Web code. It guides readers through the entire Web design process, showing them how to assemble and inventory information, locate graphics, write text and create a standards-compliant design. Devoting a chapter to each Web page element, it offers step-by-step instructions that are understandable to computer novices and also useful for experienced professionals. Its coverage of the most recent developments in Web code, chapters on XML and multimedia, and Web page writing and design make it an excellent reference for anyone seeking to create modern, standards-compliant Web designs.