Professional Communication in Engineering

✍ Scribed by H. E. Sales (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Leaves: 269
Series: Palgrave Studies in Professional and Organizational Discourse
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This book gives an inside view of real engineers communicating in a modern aerospace engineering environment. Using many authentic texts and language examples, the author describes the writing of specifications and requirements, engineering proposals, executive summaries and other communication tasks.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
The Engineers....Pages 1-22
Engineering Practices and Procedures....Pages 23-54
The Engineering Product....Pages 55-70
Engineering Texts....Pages 71-91
Engineering Specifications and Requirements....Pages 92-121
The Bid Process and Persuasion....Pages 122-152
The Presentation of Engineering Proposals....Pages 153-186
Engineering Proposals: Discourse and Information Structure....Pages 187-213
Executive Summaries....Pages 214-240
Back Matter....Pages 241-254

✦ Subjects

Discourse Analysis; Engineering, general; Sociolinguistics; Science, general; Communication Studies

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