Technical Communication - Softcover

Anderson, Paul V.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0155074210 ISBN 13: 9780155074217

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 1980

Synopsis

Known for its treatment of the rhetorical situation and its reading-centered approach, the new edition is now full color and thoroughly updated to include the latest developments in technical communication.

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Review

"My son, a geology major, used this text when he took the class (from a different instructor). He gave it good reviews and has kept it as a reference, even now that he's working full-time."

About the Author

Paul V. Anderson is Director of Writing Across the University at Elon University in Elon, NC. He was previously Director of the Roger and Joyce L. Howe Center for Writing Excellence at Miami University (Ohio), where he also served as the founding director of the university's programs in technical and scientific communication. To support various individual and collaborative projects, he has received more than $1,000,000 in external grants for research and program development in technical communication. As a researcher and consultant to business and government, Anderson has conducted workshops and made presentations in Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa, as well as across the United States. His publications, which have won awards from the Society for Technical Communication and the National Council of Teachers of English, address such topics as technical communication practice and theory, ethical issues in research and teaching, research methods, pedagogy, and assessment. Anderson has been selected as a Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication, Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, and Miami University's Institute of Environmental Science.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0155074210
• ISBN 13: 9780155074217
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 704