Technical Communication: Prinicples and Practice, 2e: Principles and Practice - Softcover

Raman, Meenakshi; Sharma, Sangeeta

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198065299 ISBN 13: 9780198065296

Publisher: OUP India, 2016

Synopsis

Adopting a direct, functional, and practical approach, the book presents an exhaustive treatment of the basics of technical communication, both oral and written. Divided into five parts, the text comprehensively covers listening, speaking, reading, and writing techniques as well as contemporary communication media. In addition to offering plenty of practical tips and attractive technical document samples, the book provides tremendous support for soft skills laboratory sessions through the CD.

With its up-to-date coverage and practical orientation, the book not only serves the purpose of being a textbook for courses on technical and professional communication but also satisfies the requirement of finishing schools. It can also be used as a reference for training programs offered by business houses and industries.

New to the second edition: New chapters: Introduction to communication, Phonetics, Effective Speaking, Listening and Speaking, Reading, Technical Writing, Referencing and Styling, Introduction to Modern Communication Media, Vocabulary, English Grammar

CD containing PowerPoint presentations, training videos, interactive exercises, and text supplements to support the text. The content is divided into six modules: Body language, Listening, Speaking, Interviews, Group discussion, Text supplements

New sections such as objective and characteristics of technical communication, importance of listening and empathy in communication, listening for general content and specific information, intensive listening, team speaking, application of MS PowerPoint, media interviews, press conferences, negotiations, SQ3R reading technique, essays, persuasive letters, and academic and business cover letters keeping in view the syllabuses of almost all Indian universities

Thoroughly revised chapters, providing streamlined explanations of concepts

New quotes, illustrations, and sidebar definitions have been included in each chapter to make the book a more lively and interesting read

Students' Resource website providing further supplements to the text.

About this title

Review

"Targeted at the first-year engineering or techical writing student, this comprehensive textbook takes a user-friendly approach organized around typical workplace situations and their impact on communication. The exercised, worksheets, and writing prompts are varied and complete enough to allow the instructor to customize assignments for a particular class or student. It provides plenty of material for the instructor to work with, and is certainly worthy of serious consideration for course adoption."--Technical Communication

About the Author

Meenakshi Raman, PhD, is presently Group Leader of the Humanities and Management Group at the Goa Campus of Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. She has several years of teaching experience and has been teaching courses on English and Professional Communication at various levels. She has co-authored several books on communication and has several articles to her credit. Sangeeta Sharma, PhD, is presently Assistant Professor and Group Leader of the Languages Group at BITS, Pilani. She has several years of teaching experience. She is currently teaching courses on communication and advertising at BITS, Pilani, and has published several articles on communication. Dr Sharma has co-authored two other books in the area of communication.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP India
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0198065299
• ISBN 13: 9780198065296
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 680