Technical Writing

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamlin, Annemarie, author.

Rubio, Chris, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanities--Textbooks.

Humanities.

Rhetoric--Textbooks.

Rhetoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Open Oregon Educational Resources [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This open textbook offers students of technical writing an introduction to the processes and products involved in professional, workplace, and technical writing. The text is broken up into sections reflecting key components of researching, developing, and producing a technical report. Readers will also learn about other professional communication, designing documents, and creating and integrating graphics. Written especially for an academic setting, this book provides readers with guidance on information literacy and documenting sources. This book was collected, adapted, and edited from multiple openly licensed sources.

Contents:

1. Professional Communications

2. Audience Analysis

3. Proposals

4. Information Literacy

5. Citations and Plagiarism

6. Progress Reports

7. Outlines

8. Creating and Integrating Graphics

9. Ethics in Technical Writing

10. Technical Reports: Components and Design

11. Basic Design and Readability in Publications

12. Employment Materials

13. Communicating across Cultures

14. Thinking about Writing

Notes:

Description based on print resource