Professional and Technical Writing Strategies: Communicating in Technology and Science

Comprehensive and easy-to-read, this award-winning reference for those in technical, engineering, and scientific fields emphasizes practical writing. Its presentation and applications offer simple guides that users can easily emulate. It combines instruction, sample papers, exercises and writing projects for manuals, correspondence, research and publication articles, and oral technical communications. The volume addresses general communication strategies, correspondence, preparing resumes, cover letters, and interviews, writing brief reports, producing professional papers, presentation strategies, verbal and visual communications, plus designing and managing web sites. For technical, engineering and scientific professionals interested in communicating more effectively.

Merrill D. Tritt has been in the information technology and human resources fields for five years. He is currently a Human Resource Information Systems Analyst for Spherion Corporation. He is also a personal computer consultant in the South Florida tri-county area. In the past, he was an adjunct professor at Broward Community College, teaching computer-related courses. He is responsible for updating most of the graphics and artwork and has also submitted numerous professional papers for this fifth edition.