Pocket Guide to Technical Writing - Softcover

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9780132421577: Pocket Guide to Technical Writing

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0132421577 ISBN 13: 9780132421577

Publisher: Prentice Hall College Div, 1997

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The Pocket Guide to Technical Communication is a handy reference for on-the-job business, technical and scientific writing. Its brief format provides quick, easy-to-read answers to common writing problems. Filled with examples, it features samples of every major document type and emphasizes quality and planning throughout. This edition offers new editing exercises, expanded coverage of email, and an entirely new section on PowerPoint. Its condensed approach is ideal for instructors who want their students to spend more time writing and less time reading about writing.

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Key Benefit: This handy reference for on-the-job writing gives quick, easy-to-find answers to common writing problems. Key Topics: The book outlines and discusses a 9-step process for writing faster. It offers formatting (page design) tips using white space, lists, and headings. It also provides an alphabetized handbook section with comprehensive advice on style, grammar, and mechanics. Includes guidelines and models (in an appendix) for planning and drafting fifteen common documents. Market: For anyone interested in professional writing.

About the Author:

SANDY PFEIFFER has spent a career in technical and professional writing. With a Ph.D. in English, he is a professor and department head at Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta, Georgia. His department offers both B.S. and M.S. degrees in Technical and Professional Communication.Besides the Pocket Guide, Pfeiffer has written Technical Writing: A Practical Approach, now in its 4th edition (Prentice Hall, 2000). The book is used in colleges and universities around the country. He also wrote Proposal Writing: The Art of Friendly Persuasion (Merrill, 1989), and co-authored, with Chuck Keller, Proposal Writing: The Act of Friendly and Winning Persuasion (Prentice Hall, 2000).Since 1979, Pfeiffer has taught communication seminars to business, industry, and government groups in the United States and overseas. Sample seminar topics include Report Writing, Proposals, Oral Presentations, Effective Meetings, and Technical Editing.

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