Technical Writing: A Practical Approach - Softcover

Pfeiffer, William S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130213721 ISBN 13: 9780130213723

Publisher: Pearson, 1999

Synopsis

For undergraduate-level courses in Technical Writing, Business Communication, Professional Communication, and Freshman Composition with a company emphasis.

Technical Writing: A Practical Approach offers an easy-to-use approach towards learning the fundamentals of technical writing. The author's writing style is reader-friendly, and engages the student by providing a comprehensive overview of current topics in technical writing.

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From the Back Cover

Pfeiffer's Technical Writing: A Practical Approach, Fifth Edition, continues to set the standard with these important and practical features:

• Focus on both the writing process and the writing product
• A simple "ABC" pattern for organizing all types of documents
• A fictional company―McDuff, Inc.―that gives students a working world context for writing models and assignments
• Easy-to-use, numbered guidelines for writing documents
• Annotated writing models conveniently grouped at the ends of chapters
• "Communication Challenge" case studies at the end of all 15 chapters
• Alphabetized writing "Handbook" for quick reference
• Ethics assignments in every chapter
• Coverage of international communication

The fifth edition includes these NEW features:

• New "Collaboration at Work" exercises open every chapter and provide easy-to-use group exercises to get students involved in the chapter content.
• "International Communication" assignments in every chapter require students to use information from the chapter to solve a problem related to communicating across cultures and nations.
• New material on web site design introduces students to issues of design, construction, use, and evaluation (Appendix B).
• Expanded coverage of email in Chapter 7 addresses the increased emphasis on email in the workplace.
• Chapter 13 has been significantly revised again to address the rapid changes in Internet research and databases.

  Access the Pfeiffer web site by pointing at www.prenhall.com/pfeiffer. Here you will find additional resources to aid you in learning and applying the information from the book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130213721
• ISBN 13: 9780130213723
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 652