Author : J. M. Haile
Publisher : Macatea Productions
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 19,90 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780971541863
Primarily written to aid self-study, this guide offers advice to engineers and other scientific professionals on good technical writing. Engineering educator Haile presents seven chapters on words and phrases, strong sentences, coherent paragraphs, punctuation, equations, tables, graphics. and overall style. Macatea Productions is a print-on-demand publisher. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Microsoft Corporation
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 823 pages
File Size : 37,12 MB
Release : 2012-01-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0735669791
Maximize the impact and precision of your message! Now in its fourth edition, the Microsoft Manual of Style provides essential guidance to content creators, journalists, technical writers, editors, and everyone else who writes about computer technology. Direct from the Editorial Style Board at Microsoft—you get a comprehensive glossary of both general technology terms and those specific to Microsoft; clear, concise usage and style guidelines with helpful examples and alternatives; guidance on grammar, tone, and voice; and best practices for writing content for the web, optimizing for accessibility, and communicating to a worldwide audience. Fully updated and optimized for ease of use, the Microsoft Manual of Style is designed to help you communicate clearly, consistently, and accurately about technical topics—across a range of audiences and media.
Author : Gottfried Semper
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 996 pages
File Size : 49,51 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780892365975
The enduring influence of the architect Gottfried Semper (1803-1879) derives primarily from his monumental theoretical foray Der Stil in der technischen und tektonischen Künsten (1860-62), here translated into English for the first time. A richly illustrated survey of the technical arts (textiles, ceramics, carpentry, masonry), Semper's analysis of the preconditions of style forever changed the interpretative context for aesthetics, architecture, and art history. Style, Semper believed, should be governed by historical function, cultural affinities, creative free will, and the innate properties of each medium. Thus, in an ambitious attempt to turn nineteenth-century artistic discussion away from historicism, aestheticism, and materialism, Semper developed in Der Stil a complex picture of stylistic change based on scrutiny of specific objects and a remarkable grasp of cultural variety. Harry Francis Mallgrave's introductory essay offers an account of Semper's life and work, a survey of Der Stil, and a fresh consideration of Semper's landmark study and its lasting significance.
Author : Philip Rubens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 15,38 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1135959501
With this new edition, Science and Technical Writing confirms its position as the definitive style resource for thousands of established and aspiring technical writers. Editor Philip Rubens has fully revised and updated his popular 1992 edition, with full, authoritative coverage of the techniques and technologies that have revolutionized electronic communications over the past eight years.
Author : Dan Richard Jones
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Longman
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,40 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Advanced technical communication books are becoming more and more available. However, each book is solely devoted to a specialized topic such as technical editing, design, illustration, usability testing, and online documentation. Despite all of these introductory and advanced books, not one is available specifically devoted to the challenges of style in technical communication. KEY TOPICS: This 12-point approach offers the most current and comprehensive instruction available in achieving an effective style in technical documents. It shows that technical prose style varies from the highly formal to the colloquial, from the pretentious to the plain, and it demonstrates the many stylistic strategies writers should consider for every technical document they write. Anyone who has to write professional and technical documents, specifically, engineers, software developers/consultants, medical writers, professional technical writers. Part of the Allyn & Bacon Series in Technical communication.
Author : Robert W. Bly
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 14,62 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Reference
ISBN :
Author : Brian R. Holloway
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,36 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
For one-semester freshman/sophomore-level courses in Technical Writing; and an excellent reference for any course that requires technical writing. Using a reader-friendly approach that is incremental and cumulative, this short, uncluttered guide to technical writing shows students how to take the structures, patterns, and strategies of writing learned in a Basic Composition course (summary, process, analysis, and persuasion) and apply them in different kinds of technical documents. Direct practical explanations, copious real-world examples, and a variety of "role-playing" exercises lead students through the process of document production and assessment or what the author calls "transactional" writing: getting another person to read one's material, presenting such material clearly and accurately, and adhering to standards of format acceptable in the field. Unlike most other texts (which focus on the writing needs in the executive domain of the major corporation only), this guide covers a variety of non-corporate working environments that also require skill in technical communications (e.g., social service agencies, institutions, and small businesses).
Author : Michal Křístek
Publisher : Masarykova univerzita
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 21,1 MB
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 8021082178
Práce poskytuje srovnání teoretických přístupů k problematice stylu, a to v rámci českého a anglosaského (především britského) kontextu. Cílem bylo ukázat a srovnat odlišná metodologická pojetí založená na odlišných teoretických východiscích – proto byly zvoleny dva odlišné kulturní okruhy: pozornost je však samozřejmě věnována také vztahů mezi nimi. Dvacáté století bylo vybráno úmyslně, jako období, v němž se v obou prostředích stylistika konstituovala jako moderní teoretická disciplína opírající se o základnu lingvistiky a literární vědy. Práci mohou využít jak domácí, tak zahraniční studenti a vyučující, především bohemisté a anglisté.
Author : M. Jimmie Killingsworth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 37,38 MB
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1351841742
This important new text invites readers to step back from their busy professional lives and look at technical communication philosophically, to ask fundamental questions such as what does it mean to communicate? and how do language and graphics - the ""signs"" or ""tools"" of the technical communicator - relate to action in a technological world? Through this excursion in the theory of technical discourse, you will discover a fresh approach to reports, manuals, and proposals produced and consumed daily in business, government, and research organizations around the world. The authors examine familiar genres in two relatively new ways.
Author : Andrew Sanchez
Publisher : Apress
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 25,42 MB
Release : 2010-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1430225483
Technical Support Essentials is a book about the many facets of technical support. It attempts to provide a wide array of topics to serve as points of improvement, discussion, or simply topics that you might want to learn. The topics range from good work habits to the way technical support groups establish their own style of work. This book applies theories, models, and concepts synthesized from existing research in other fields—such as management, economics, leadership, and psychology—and connects them to technical support. The goal is to build on the work of others and allow their success to evolve the profession. The book’s broad perspective looks at proven practices, legal issues, dealing with customers, utilizing resources, and an array of other topics of interest to tech support professionals.
