Technical communication today

✍ Scribed by Johnson-Sheehan, Richard

• Publisher: Pearson
• Year: 2013;2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 680
• Series: Pearson custom library
• Edition: Pearson new international edition, Fourth edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 4
1. Communicating in the Technical Workplace......Page 6
2. Readers and Contexts of Use......Page 24
3. Working in Teams......Page 51
4. Ethics in the Technical Workplace......Page 77
5. Letters, Memos, and E-Mail......Page 102
6. Technical Descriptions and Specifications......Page 143
7. Instructions and Documentation......Page 176
8. Proposals......Page 216
9. Analytical Reports......Page 258
10. Activity Reports......Page 305
11. Starting Your Career......Page 329
12. Strategic Planning, Being Creative......Page 369
13. Persuading Others......Page 385
14. Researching and Research Methods......Page 404
15. Using Sources and Managing Information......Page 426
16. Organizing and Drafting......Page 445
17. Using Plain and Persuasive Language......Page 477
18. Designing Documents and Interfaces......Page 504
19. Creating and Using Graphics......Page 547
20. Revising and Editing for Usability......Page 576
21. Preparing and Giving Presentations......Page 598
22. Designing Websites......Page 636
23. Using Social Networking Tools (Web 2.0)......Page 660
References......Page 672
E......Page 676
L......Page 677
P......Page 678
T......Page 679
Y......Page 680

✦ Subjects

Textbooks;Language;Writing;Nonfiction;Academic;School;Teaching;Reference