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Technical Writing: A Practical Guide for Engineers, Scientists, and Nontechnical Professionals, Second Edition (What Every Engineer Should Know) - Softcover
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Technical Writing: A Practical Guide for Engineers, Scientists, and Nontechnical Professionals, Second Edition enables readers to write, edit, and publish materials of a technical nature, including books, articles, reports, and electronic media. Written by a renowned engineer and widely published technical author, this guide complements traditional writer’s reference manuals on technical writing through presentation of first-hand examples that help readers understand practical considerations in writing and producing technical content. These examples illustrate how a publication originates as well as various challenges and solutions.
The second edition contains new material in every chapter including new topics, additional examples, insights, tips and tricks, new vignettes and more exercises. Appendices have been added for writing checklists and writing samples. The references and glossary have been updated and expanded. In addition, a focus on writing for the nontechnical persons working in the technology world and the nonnative English speaker has been incorporated. Written in an informal, conversational style, unlike traditional college writing texts, the book also contains many interesting vignettes and personal stories to add interest to otherwise stodgy lessons.
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"Overall the book provides practical, actionable, information that can be used to improve anyone’s writing skills – technical or nontechnical. The author covers a wide variety of media used to convey technical information not only including books and journals, but also magazines, conference proceedings, newsletters, websites, and blogs. Rather than a boring cookbook style of writing, the author uses many stories, personal examples of his own writing, and visuals (graphs, tables, drawings) to convey good writing styles and practical information that will improve your writing.
There are references and sample exercises at the end of each chapter for further study. The appendix also contains a list of templates for various types of documents Anyone interested in improving their writing skills and technical communication skills in general will find this book to be an invaluable and practical reference guide."
―IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine June 2019 Issue
About the Author
Dr. Phil Laplante is Professor of Software and Systems Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. He received his B.S., M.Eng., and Ph.D. from Stevens Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of Colorado. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and SPIE and has won international awards for his teaching, research and service. Since 2010 he has led the effort to develop a national licensing exam for software engineers.
He has worked in avionics, CAD, and software testing systems and he has published more than 33 books and 250 scholarly papers. He is a licensed professional engineer in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He is also a frequent technology advisor to senior executives, investors, entrepreneurs and attorneys and actively serves on corporate technology advisory boards.
His research interests are in software testing, requirements engineering and software quality and management. Prior to his appointment at Penn State he was a software development professional, technology executive, college president and entrepreneur.
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1138628107
- ISBN 13 9781138628106
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages300
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