A Beginner's Guide To Technical Communication ISBN 0-07-092045-1

Given the tremendous amount of new material beginning engineering students are expected to absorb, it is easy for communications skills to be lost in the shuffle. Yet writing reports and presenting information are a crucial component of any engineer's career, and Anne Eisenberg's BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION can help prevent your students from leaving school full of knowledge and skills which they are unable to communicate. Eisenberg's is the first text to pattern all of its exercises and examples on writing assignments typically given in first-year engineering courses; furthermore, the material is flexible enough to be just as useful in or out of a technical communication course.

Eisenberg's text consists of three parts, to be read before students write, while they write, and after they write. The first section provides numerous examples of weak or unclear reports, accompanied by revisions for comparisons. Section two offers tips on organizing disparate material into coherent units, as well as advice on "stick-to-it" strategies such as brainstorming and keeping a laboratory notebook. Section three provides techniques for revision, covering grammar, organization, style, and trimming.

Contents
Before you Write
1. The Logical Structure of Technical Reports--Section by Section
2. Coherence in Longer Reports

While You Write
3. Strategies: Ways to Use Teamwork, Laboratory Notebooks, and Report Format to Help with the Writing Process

After You Write
4. Editing for Style and Usage
5. Editing for Grammar and Punctuation

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