Product Description

Writing for the Technical Professions provides practical advice for composing a wide variety of professional documents.
This easy to read, easy to reference book will help any one in a technical profession communicate their ideas.   A focus on
the electronic workplace, legal and ethical issues, and an emphasis on collaboration and international communication make this book one
of the most up-to-date books on the market today. Any technical writer or professional interested in improving their writing
skills.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #623505 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 528 pages

Book Info
Presents practical advice for anyone who is, or will be, working in the technical professions. It introduces the world of technical communication, the types of documents that technical professionals follow to get their work done. Spiral. DLC: English language - Technical English.

Customer Reviews

Great Reference Tool
This is a excellent resource for actual professionals or those just getting started in tech writing. Contents include everyday documentation like emails, reports, and RFP responses as well as sections on international communication. It also covers style and rhetorical strategy (pathos anyone?).

I used this book for a college course then kept it for my work in the real world, writing user guides for technology classrooms at my University. It is designed as a handbook and not a textbook so some chapters may be repetitive if you a reading from cover to cover. Those of you looking for long drowned out chapters of text with no meat should look elsewhere.

I hear there is a 4th edition floating around somewhere.

Book is suck.
The book is suck. The book describes all techniques in first chapter at once and too many complicated examples. Should have been wrote clearly step by step. I don't think it is a good book for students.

Writing for the Technical Professions
This book helped me write technically and professionally. The author highlighted the common errors by the writters for the technical writting. Tabs are an excellent way to organize this workbook. Some English professors already used this book as a reference book in their Technical Writing classes. I would like to use this book as a workbook to practice my technical writing skill for the computer software user manuals.