Technical Report Writing Today
by Riordan, Daniel G.; Pauley, Steven E.Edition: 7th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-12-11
Publisher(s): Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary
Technical Report Writing Today provides thorough coverage of the technical writing basics, techniques, and applications students are likely to encounter in both their academic courses and their future careers. Its practical presentation of varied examples and exercises helps students internalize the skills necessary to produce clear and effective documents and reports. Annotated student examples--more than 100 in all--illustrate different writing styles and approaches to problems. A chapter on Developing Web Sites introduces students to the basics of effective web site creation by presenting professional and student examples and references to current practices.
Table of Contents
| Technical Writing Basics | |
| Definition of Technical Writing | |
| Technical Writing Is Audience-Centered | |
| Technical Writing Is Presentational | |
| Technical Writing Is Responsible | |
| Defining Audience | |
| An Example of Technical Writing | |
| How Much Does Your Audience Know About the Topic | |
| What Is the Audience's Role in the Situation | |
| What Are the Audience's Community Attitudes | |
| What Consequences Will Occur from This Idea | |
| The Technical Writing Process | |
| An Overview of the Process | |
| Planning Your Document | |
| Drafting and Finishing Your Document | |
| Technical Writing Style | |
| Write Clear Sentences for Your Reader | |
| Write Clear Paragraphs for Your Reader | |
| Choose a Tone for the Reader | |
| Technical Writing Techniques | |
| Researching | |
| The Purpose of Research | |
| Questioning--The Basic Skill of Researching | |
| Collecting Information from People | |
| Collecting Published Information | |
| Summarizing Summarizing | |
| Designing Pages | |
| Design for Readers | |
| Learn the Elements of Page | |
| Design Use Basic Design | |
| Guidelines Develop a Style Sheet | |
| Using Visual Aids | |
| The Uses of Visual Aids | |
| Creating and Discussing Visual Aids | |
| Using Tables Using Line Graphs | |
| Using Bar Graphs Using Pie Charts | |
| Three Principles for Manipulating Graphs | |
| Using Charts | |
| Using Illustrations | |
| Defining Creating Formal Definitions | |
| Creating Informal Definitions | |
| Developing Extended Definitions | |
| Planning Your Definition | |
| Describing Planning the Mechanism | |
| Description Writing the Mechanism | |
| Description Planning the Process | |
| Description Writing the Process | |
| Description Planning the Description of a Human System | |
| Writing the Description of a Human System | |
| Sets of Instructions | |
| Planning the Sets of Instructions | |
| Writing the Set of Instructions | |
| Field-Testing Instructions | |
| Article Instructions | |
| Technical Writing Applications | |
| Memorandums and Informal Reports | |
| The Elements of Memos | |
| The Elements of Informal Reports | |
| Types of Informal Reports | |
| Developing Web Sites | |
| Basic Web Concepts | |
| Planning a Web Site or Web Document | |
| Drafting Testing | |
| Formal Reports | |
| The Elements of a Formal Report | |
| Front Material | |
| The Body of the Formal Report | |
| End Material Works Cited | |
| Recommendation and Feasibility Reports | |
| Planning the Recommendation Report | |
| Writing the Recommendation Report | |
| Planning the Feasibility Report | |
| Writing the Feasibility Report | |
| Proposals | |
| The External Proposal | |
| Planning the External Proposal | |
| Writing the External Proposal | |
| The Internal Proposal | |
| Planning the Internal Proposal | |
| Writing the Internal Proposal | |
| User Manuals Planning the Manual Writing the Manual | |
| Oral Reports Planning the Oral Report | |
| Organizing the Oral Report | |
| Presenting the Oral Report Effectively | |
| Professional Communication | |
| Letters | |
| The Three Basic Letter Formats | |
| Elements of a Letter Planning | |
| Business Letters | |
| Types of Business Letters | |
| Job Application Materials | |
| Analyzing the Situation | |
| Planning the Reacute;sumeacute; Writing the Reacute;sumeacute; | |
| Planning a Letter of Application | |
| Writing a Letter of Application | |
| Interviewing Writing Follow-up Letters | |
| Appendices | |
| Brief Handbook for Technical Writers Problems with Sentence Construction Punctuation Abbreviations, Capitalization, and Numbers | |
| Documenting Sources How Internal Documentation Works The APA Method The MLA Method Numbered References | |
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