Practical Strategies for Technical Communication - Softcover

Markel, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1319003362 ISBN 13: 9781319003364

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2015

Synopsis

In Practical Strategies for Technical Communication, Mike Markel gives students the essentials they'll need to communicate successfully in today's workplace. The book offers concise and accessible yet thorough coverage of audience and purpose, research, style, and document design, and strategies for designing all of the major document types. For the second edition, Markel has worked with organizations to choose sample documents and annotate them with insights and advice from the employees who developed them. Throughout the text, a new set of engaging graphics provides visual explanations of key concepts.

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About this title

About the Author:

Mike Markel was director of technical communication at Boise State University, where he taught both undergraduate and graduate courses. The former editor of IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, he is the author of numerous articles and six books about technical communication, including Ethics and Technical Communication: A Critique and Synthesis. His latest book is The Reveal, a mystery.

Review:

"A concise, well-organized, and visually inviting text that covers all the necessities in technical communication." - Monique Babin; English, Clackamas Community College

About this edition

• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1319003362
• ISBN 13: 9781319003364
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 560