From abstracts to online professional profiles, from blogs and forums to formal reports and manuals, the Handbook of Technical Writing uses smart, accessible language to spotlight and clarify technical writing today. Hundreds of topic entries, 90+ sample documents, at-a-glance checklists, and clear, explicit models, communicate the real-world practices of successful technical writers. Developed by a legendary author team with decades of combined academic and professional experience, the book's intuitive, alphabetical organization makes it easy to navigate its extensive coverage of grammar,…mehr
From abstracts to online professional profiles, from blogs and forums to formal reports and manuals, the Handbook of Technical Writing uses smart, accessible language to spotlight and clarify technical writing today. Hundreds of topic entries, 90+ sample documents, at-a-glance checklists, and clear, explicit models, communicate the real-world practices of successful technical writers. Developed by a legendary author team with decades of combined academic and professional experience, the book's intuitive, alphabetical organization makes it easy to navigate its extensive coverage of grammar, usage, and style. Plus, updated, in-depth treatment of pressing issues like the job search, audience awareness, source documentation, and social media use on the job resonate both in class and at the office. With a refreshed, integrated focus on the ways technologies shape writing, this Twelfth Edition is the indispensable reference tool for writing successfully in the workplace.
Gerald J. Alred; Walter E. Oliu; Charles T. Brusaw
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Abbreviations Abstracts Abstract / Concrete Words Acceptances/Refusals (for Employment) Acknowledgments Acronyms and Initialisms Adapting to New Technologies Adjectives Adjustment Messages Adverbs Affectation Agreement Allusions Ambiguity Antonyms Ampersands Apostrophes Appendixes Application Cover Letters Appositives Articles Audience Awkwardness Biased Language Bibliographies Blogs and Forums Brainstorming Brainstorming Bracket Brochures Buzzwords Capitalization Case Cause-and-Effect Chronological Clarity Clauses Clichés Coherence Collaborative Writing Colons Comma Splice Commas Comparison Comparison Complaints Complements Conciseness Compound Words Conclusions Conjunctions Connotation / Denotation Content Management Context Contractions Contractions Copyrights, Patents, and Trademarks Correspondence Cover Messages (or Transmittals) Dangling Modifiers Dashes Dates Defining Terms Definition Description Description Direct Address Division-and-Classification Document Management Documenting Sources Double Negatives Drawings Ellipses E-mail Emphasis English as a Second Language English, Varieties of Environmental Impact Statements Ethics in Writing Euphemisms Exclamation Marks Executive Summaries Expletives Expletives Exposition FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) Feasibility Reports Figures of Speech Flowcharts Foreign Words in English Formal Reports Forms Forms Functional Shift Functional Shift Garbled Sentences Gender General and Specific Global Communication Global Graphics Glossaries Gobbledygook Grant Proposals Grammar Graphs Headers and Footers Headings Hyphens Idioms Indexing Incident Reports Infographics Inquiries and Responses Instant Messaging and Live Chat Instructions Intensifiers International Correspondence Interjections Interviewing for Information Interviewing for a Job Introductions Investigative Reports Italics Job Descriptions Jargon Job Search Laboratory Reports Layout and Design Letters Listening Lists Literature Reviews Literature Reviews Logic Errors Manuals Malapropisms Maps Mathematical Equations Mathematical Equations Meetings Memos Methods of Development Minutes of Meetings Modifiers Mixed Constructions Mood Narration Newsletter Articles Newsletters Nominalizations Note-Taking Nouns Number (Grammar) Numbers Objects Online Professional Profile Order-of-Importance Organization Organizational Charts Outlining Pace Paragraphs Parallel Structure Paraphrasing Parentheses Parts of Speech Periods Person Photographs Persuasion Phrases Plagiarism Plain Language Point of View Positive Writing Possessive Case Preparation Prefixes Prepositions Presentations Process Explanation Progress and Activity Reports Pronoun Reference Pronouns Proofreading Proposals Proofreading Punctuation Purpose Question Marks Questionnaires Questionnaires Quotation Marks Quotations Reference Letters Readers Refusal Letters Repetition Reports Repurposing Requests for Proposals Research Resignation Letters Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Elements Résumés Revision Rhetorical Questions Run-on Sentences Scope Selecting the Medium Semicolons Sentence Construction Sentence Faults Sentence Variety Sequential Slashes Social Media Spatial Specifications Spelling Style Subordination Sentence Fragments Synonyms Suffixes Syntax Tables Tables of Contents Technical Writing Style Telegraphic Style Tense Test Reports Text Messaging Titles Thesaurus Tone Trade Journal Articles Transition Trip Reports Usability Testing Usage Unity Vague Words Verbals Verbs Visuals Voice White Papers Word Choice Writing a Draft Writing for the Web "You" Viewpoint
Abbreviations Abstracts Abstract / Concrete Words Acceptances/Refusals (for Employment) Acknowledgments Acronyms and Initialisms Adapting to New Technologies Adjectives Adjustment Messages Adverbs Affectation Agreement Allusions Ambiguity Antonyms Ampersands Apostrophes Appendixes Application Cover Letters Appositives Articles Audience Awkwardness Biased Language Bibliographies Blogs and Forums Brainstorming Brainstorming Bracket Brochures Buzzwords Capitalization Case Cause-and-Effect Chronological Clarity Clauses Clichés Coherence Collaborative Writing Colons Comma Splice Commas Comparison Comparison Complaints Complements Conciseness Compound Words Conclusions Conjunctions Connotation / Denotation Content Management Context Contractions Contractions Copyrights, Patents, and Trademarks Correspondence Cover Messages (or Transmittals) Dangling Modifiers Dashes Dates Defining Terms Definition Description Description Direct Address Division-and-Classification Document Management Documenting Sources Double Negatives Drawings Ellipses E-mail Emphasis English as a Second Language English, Varieties of Environmental Impact Statements Ethics in Writing Euphemisms Exclamation Marks Executive Summaries Expletives Expletives Exposition FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) Feasibility Reports Figures of Speech Flowcharts Foreign Words in English Formal Reports Forms Forms Functional Shift Functional Shift Garbled Sentences Gender General and Specific Global Communication Global Graphics Glossaries Gobbledygook Grant Proposals Grammar Graphs Headers and Footers Headings Hyphens Idioms Indexing Incident Reports Infographics Inquiries and Responses Instant Messaging and Live Chat Instructions Intensifiers International Correspondence Interjections Interviewing for Information Interviewing for a Job Introductions Investigative Reports Italics Job Descriptions Jargon Job Search Laboratory Reports Layout and Design Letters Listening Lists Literature Reviews Literature Reviews Logic Errors Manuals Malapropisms Maps Mathematical Equations Mathematical Equations Meetings Memos Methods of Development Minutes of Meetings Modifiers Mixed Constructions Mood Narration Newsletter Articles Newsletters Nominalizations Note-Taking Nouns Number (Grammar) Numbers Objects Online Professional Profile Order-of-Importance Organization Organizational Charts Outlining Pace Paragraphs Parallel Structure Paraphrasing Parentheses Parts of Speech Periods Person Photographs Persuasion Phrases Plagiarism Plain Language Point of View Positive Writing Possessive Case Preparation Prefixes Prepositions Presentations Process Explanation Progress and Activity Reports Pronoun Reference Pronouns Proofreading Proposals Proofreading Punctuation Purpose Question Marks Questionnaires Questionnaires Quotation Marks Quotations Reference Letters Readers Refusal Letters Repetition Reports Repurposing Requests for Proposals Research Resignation Letters Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Elements Résumés Revision Rhetorical Questions Run-on Sentences Scope Selecting the Medium Semicolons Sentence Construction Sentence Faults Sentence Variety Sequential Slashes Social Media Spatial Specifications Spelling Style Subordination Sentence Fragments Synonyms Suffixes Syntax Tables Tables of Contents Technical Writing Style Telegraphic Style Tense Test Reports Text Messaging Titles Thesaurus Tone Trade Journal Articles Transition Trip Reports Usability Testing Usage Unity Vague Words Verbals Verbs Visuals Voice White Papers Word Choice Writing a Draft Writing for the Web "You" Viewpoint
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