Concise Guide to Technical and Academic Writing

Technical and academic writing share one thing in common: they present focused information to a targeted audience to accomplish a specific purpose. Technical and academic writing can be, and need to be, good writing. By presenting the principles of good writing, strategies for clear technical and academic writing, and essentials of writing mechanics, this concise guide shows you how to write clear, engaging, and straightforward documents that achieve your purpose and meet the readers' needs. Concise Guide to Technical and Academic Writing is for people who write project reports, white papers, instructional texts, position papers, annual reports, dissertations and theses, grant proposals, expository essays, book and article reviews, research findings, and other types of technical and academic documents.

In thirty-plus years of teaching English, ten of them at the college level, I've never seen a clearer, more focused presentation of the basic concepts needed to produce readable writing.

In just 124 pages, David Bowman succeeds in packing all the grammatical and structural information a writer of technical or academic texts needs to produce a workmanlike product. Not a word is wasted on irrelevancies; only the information needed to write objective, coherent, uncluttered informational prose is included.
(Maeve Maddox, Ph.D., the American English Doctor, educator, and author)