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Technical Communication: A Practical Approach, 7th Edition

By William S. Pfeiffer, Kaye E. Adkins

ISBN-10: 0-13-500050-5

ISBN-13: 978-0-13-500050-2What's this?

Published by Prentice Hall

© 2010

Pub. Date: Jan 12, 2009

Format: Paper

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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.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

 

1.      Process in Technical Communication

2.      M-Global, Inc.: Ethics and Globalism in the Workplace

3.      Organizing Information

4.      Page Design

5.      Letters, Memos, and Electronic Correspondence

6.      Definition and Description

7.      Instructions and Process Explanations

8.      Informal Reports

9.      Formal Reports

10.  Proposals and Feasibility Studies

11.  Web Pages and Writing for the Web

12.  Graphics

13.  Collaborative Writing

14.  Oral Communication

15.  Technical Research

16.  The Job Search

17.  Style in Technical Writing

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