Engineering Words
eBook - PDF

Engineering Words

Communicating Clearly in the Workplace

  1. 298 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Engineering Words

Communicating Clearly in the Workplace

About this book

Over the course of a career, every engineer needs to communicate, in both written and oral form, with other engineers and non-engineers. Yet, too many engineers never develop this basic skill.

Engineering Words draws on the authors’ extensive experience as technical communicators and their popular class in technical communication for engineers at the University of California, Riverside, to present a comprehensive introduction to communicating in the business world.

This second edition expands to cover writing tools (including AI tools), functioning in today’s workplace, ethics, and selling your ideas.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword to the Second Edition
  6. Foreword to the First Edition
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Chapter 1. Welcome
  9. Chapter 2. Clear Writing Guidelines
  10. Chapter 3. Writing Good Procedures
  11. Chapter 4. Writing Tools
  12. Chapter 5. The Business Context of Communication
  13. Chapter 6. The Workplace Ecosystem
  14. Chapter 7. Résumés and Cover Letters
  15. Chapter 8. Ethics in Engineering
  16. Chapter 9. Flow of a Project in a Company
  17. Chapter 10. Pitching Ideas
  18. Chapter 11. Designing Effective Presentations
  19. Chapter 12. Handling Yourself and the Room in Presentations
  20. Chapter 13. Cognitive Science
  21. Chapter 14. Constructing Explanations
  22. Chapter 15. Personas and Scenarios
  23. Chapter 16. Writing Functional Specifications
  24. Chapter 17. Testing Your Products
  25. Appendix A. Metaphors
  26. Appendix B. References
  27. Index
  28. Colophon
  29. Back Cover