Technical Writing for Success, 4th

Darlene Smith-Worthington, Sue Jefferson (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

544 Seiten

2018 | 4th edition
Delmar Cengage Learning (Verlag)
978-1-305-94882-2 (ISBN)

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Help students access their true potential with TECHNICAL WRITING FOR SUCCESS, Fourth Edition! This engaging and practical approach to workplace writing helps you guide students in the process of thinking, listening, researching, planning, composing, revising, and editing documents for use in business, science, hi-tech, and other demanding fields. Packed with active learning features from Cengage, this text makes it easy to show the importance of regular writing practice as students produce their own proposal content, manual instructions, informative briefs, lab reports, news releases, and other documents they won’t see in general communications courses. Sample documents, critical thinking questions, expanded content on oral presentations, and insightful writing advice on style and voice add to this inclusive text—empowering you empower tomorrow’s best technical writers.

Darlene Smith-Worthington is a former instructor and administrator for Pitt Community College in Winterville, North Carolina, where she taught technical writing for two decades. Recently retired, she also edited a weekly newspaper, directed public relations, and managed a small business during her 30-year professional career. Ms. Smith-Worthington feels passionate about education and strives to produce instructional materials that are engaging, based in reality, and useful. Sue Jefferson has taught technical writing for more than ten years. Currently a community college instructor, she has also taught in middle school and high school, and owned and managed several businesses. Ms. Jefferson uses her business background and teaching experience to develop practical materials and instructions that prepare students for meaningful, lifelong careers.

1. WHAT IS TECHNICAL WRITING?
2. AUDIENCE AND PURPOSE
3. TECHNICAL RESEARCH.
Conducting Technical Research. Researching at Work. Finding Secondary Data. Documenting Secondary Sources. Evaluating Sources. Taking Notes from Sources. Collecting Primary Data.
4. WRITING PROCESS.
A Process for Technical Writing. Planning. Drafting and Revising. Copyediting and Publishing. Writing Collaboratively.
5. BRIEF CORRESPONDENCE.
Introduction to Text Messages, E-mails, Memos, and Letters. Audience. Prewriting. Formatting. Composing the Message.
6. DOCUMENT DESIGN AND GRAPHICS.
Designing the Document. Who Reads Graphics? Designing Graphics. Constructing Graphics.
7. WRITING FOR THE WEB.
Getting Started on Web Pages. Organizing and Designing Web Pages. Writing Text for the Web. Special Web Pages.
8. INFORMATIVE REPORTS.
Getting Started on Informative Reports. Summary and Abstract. Mechanism Description. Periodic Reports. Progress Reports. News Releases.
9. INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS.
Incident Report. Trip Report. Science Lab Report. Forensic Report.
10. INSTRUCTIONS.
Getting Started on Instructions. Organizing and Formatting Instructions. Composing Instructions.
11. EMPLOYMENT COMMUNICATION.
Getting Started on Employment Communication. Formatting and Organizing Resumes. Types of Resumes. Composing Resumes. Composing Employment Letters.
12. PRESENTATIONS.
Getting Started on Presentations. Planning. Organizing and Composing. Preparing. Rehearsing. Presenting. Organizing a Group Presentation.
13. RECOMMENDATION REPORTS.
What is a Recommendation Report? Starting a Recommendation Report. Formatting and Organizing Recommendation Reports. Composing Recommendation Reports.
14. PROPOSALS.
15. ETHICS IN THE WORKPLACE.
16. TECHNICAL READING.

Appendix: Inside Track.
You Attitude. Tone. Parallelism. Economy. Using Numbers. Clarity. Active and Passive Voice. Gender Unbiased Language. Effective Transitions.

Erscheinungsdatum	26.07.2017
Verlagsort	Clifton Park
Sprache	englisch
Maße	220 x 22 mm
Gewicht	1270 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Bewerbung / Karriere
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Berufspädagogik
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10	1-305-94882-3 / 1305948823
ISBN-13	978-1-305-94882-2 / 9781305948822
Zustand	Neuware