Professional Technicl Writing Strategies: Communicating in Technology and Science - Softcover

VanAlstyne, Judith S; Maddison, Gordon R

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131386522 ISBN 13: 9780131386525

Publisher: Prentice-Hall, 1995

Synopsis

For freshman and sophomore level courses in Professional Writing, Technical Writing and Science and Technical Writing.

Comprehensive and easy-to-read, this award-winning text/reference for students emphasizes practical writing. Its presentation and applications offer simple guides that students can easily emulate. It combines instruction, sample papers, exercises and writing projects for manuals, correspondence, research and publication articles, and oral technical communications plus coverage of Internet aids and website design.

About this title

About the Author

Judith S. VanAlstyne taught English at Broward Community College for thirty years and was an adjunct professor at Florida Atlantic University. She has served as an industry technical communications consultant and conducted technical writing workshops and seminars throughout three South Florida counties. Ms. VanAlstyne initiated the Technical Writing Curriculum and Certificate Program at Broward Community College. She has authored numerous graphic design texts, instructional videos for technical writing, and technical workshop/seminar workbooks. In addition to teaching expository and creative writing and literature courses, she introduced the technical writing course curriculum to a private college in Malaysia. She has also published literary criticism, travel articles, and poetry.

Merrill D. Tritt has been in the information technology and human resources fields for five years. He is currently a Human Resource Information Systems Analyst for Spherion Corporation. He is also a personal computer consultant in the South Florida tri-county area. In the past, he was an adjunct professor at Broward Community College, teaching computer-related courses. He is responsible for updating most of the graphics and artwork and has also submitted numerous professional papers for this fifth edition.

From the Back Cover

The fifth edition of this successful text is suitable for college and university students at any level. The materials have been tested in academic classes and in training workshops in

The authors include writing samples that illustrate actual writing demands in a crow-section of career fields: architecture, aviation, computer sciences, ecology, engineering, fire science, insurance, real estate, landscape technology, manufacturing, medicine and dentistry, nursing and paramedical fields, pest control technology, and all of the sciences.

Revisions to the fifth edition include:

• Coverage of the expanded role of the technical writer with extensive coverage of the ethical and legal concerns in communication.
• Expanded discussion of collaborative writing and offers more collaborative writing projects.
• 38 new illustrative graphics and page design options.
• Moving the Research Strategies section to much earlier in the text to reflect the increasing importance research has on technical documents.
• A new chapter on Web site design and management in Part Five entitled Presentation Strategies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice-Hall
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0131386522
• ISBN 13: 9780131386525
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 541