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Technical Writing & Presentation
The Commonwealth and International Library: Social Administration, Training, Economics, and Production Division
- 131 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Technical Writing & Presentation
The Commonwealth and International Library: Social Administration, Training, Economics, and Production Division
About this book
Technical Writing and Presentation is a guide to writing reports and articles for presentation to technical people or to the scientific community. The book deals with the special requirements in writing technical and highly specialized reports. The book covers the complete phase from planning the work to be done to finally editing the manuscript. To start writing, the writer aims to have a clear objective and properly identifies his kind of readership. Then the author provides tips on gathering information and how to arrange these in standard sequences. The author then discusses the style of writing, choice of words and sentences, paragraph length, use of appropriate jargon and clichés and the use of passive construction of sentences. After providing some examples of good writing, the book addresses the importance of a good layout. This includes margins, spacing, headings, and preparing the manuscript. The use of illustrations, tone drawings, graphs, and photographs is discussed. The book then focuses on the editing process when the writer reviews his own work objectively. The text also gives tips on editing procedures as well as miscellaneous problems (use of copyrighted materials, footnotes, and references). Many scientists, researchers, technologists, students, and academic professors who have to write articles and papers of a technical nature will find this book handy.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Technical Writing & Presentation
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1. PLANNING THE WORK
- CHAPTER 2. ASSEMBLING THE INFORMATION
- CHAPTER 3. FINDING THE RIGHT WORDS
- CHAPTER 4. THE FIRST DRAFT
- CHAPTER 5. SOME EXAMPLES DISCUSSED
- CHAPTER 6. THE IMPORTANCE OF GOOD LAY-OUT
- CHAPTER 7. WAYS OF REPRODUCING REPORTS
- CHAPTER 8. ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER 9. REPRODUCING DRAWINGS AND PHOTOGRAPHS
- CHAPTER 10. EDITING TECHNICAL WRITING
- CHAPTER 11. MISCELLANEOUS PROBLEMS
- INDEX
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Yes, you can access Technical Writing & Presentation by W. S. Robertson,W. D. Siddle, R Brown,G. Chandler,W. A. Davis in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Technology & Engineering & Writing Skills. We have over 1.5 million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.