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Series
Language
English
Description
"In today's complex world, technical writing is needed just about everywhere. Technical Writing For Dummies will teach you the basics and show you how to write user manuals, abstracts, spec sheets, video scripts, and all other species of technical documents."--
Author
Publisher
Prentice-Hall
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
The Craft of Scientific Writing is designed to help scientists and engineers-both professionals already active in the disciplines as well as students preparing to enter the professions-write about their work clearly and effectively.
The author, who is both a writer and an applied physicist, approaches the subject in a fresh way. Using scores of examples from a wide variety of authors and disciplines (including such well-known figures as Einstein,...
Publisher
Da Capo Lifelong Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Popular science writing has exploded in the past decade, both in print and on-line. Who better to guide writers striving to succeed in the profession than a group of award-winning, well-published journalists with a combined 225 years of experience? From Thomas Hayden's chapter on the nuts and bolts of making the perfect pitch to Emma Maris's advice about putting together a book proposal to Mark Schrope's essential information on contracts, the members...
Author
Publisher
LearningExpress
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Teaches the art of technical writing by illustrating how to take complex, arcane, sophisticated, or elaborate technical information and put it into a format that can be understood. Comprehensive resource is designed to help individuals master communication in technical information and increase their employee value in today's high-tech workplace. Includes the secrets of the best technical writers.
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
For students, scientists, journalists and others, a comprehensive guide to communicating data clearly and effectively.
Acclaimed by scientists, journalists, faculty, and students, “The Chicago Guide to Writing about Numbers” has helped thousands communicate data clearly and effectively. It offers a much-needed bridge between good quantitative analysis and clear expository writing, using straightforward principles and efficient prose. With this...
Author
Language
English
Description
"With more than three-quarters of a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of Research has helped generations of researchers at every level-from first-year undergraduates to advanced graduate students to research reporters in business and government-learn how to conduct effective and meaningful research. Conceived by seasoned researchers and educators Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams, this fundamental work...