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Professional and Technical Writing Strategies: Communicating in Technology and Science, 5/E
Judith S. VanAlstyne, (Emeritus) Broward Community College
with Merrill D. Tritt, Spherion Corporation

ISBN-10: 0130412791
ISBN-13: 9780130412799

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2002
Format: Paper; 706 pp
Published: 07/19/2001

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For freshman and sophomore level courses in Professional Writing, Technical Writing and Science and Technical Writing.

Comprehensive and easy-to-read, this award-winning text/reference for students emphasizes practical writing. Its presentation and applications offer simple guides that students can easily emulate. It combines instruction, sample papers, exercises and writing projects for manuals, correspondence, research and publication articles, and oral technical communications plus coverage of Internet aids and website design.

Features

NEW - Expanding role of technical writer—Including ethical and legal concerns in communication.
- Familiarizes students with the primary concerns for professional actions, writing, and graphics generation. Ex.___

NEW - Collaborative writing—With collaborative exercises and writing projects in each chapter.
- Introduces students to new process, advantages and disadvantages of the growing practice of collaboration. Ex.___

NEW - Expanded international/multicultural aspects.
- Provides students with the skills needed in the shrinking global world. Ex.___

NEW - 100 new graphics and sample page design options.
- Helps students understand when and how to use graphics to devise strategically designed documents. Ex.___

NEW - Library computer databases expanded and revised.
- Provides students with up-to-date models for using and documenting electronic sources. Ex.___

NEW - Verbal and visual communications expanded.
- Provides students with comprehensive instruction on designing and maintaining websites, video conferencing, and employment videos. Ex.___

NEW - New samples—Résumés and cover letters, reports and professional papers, and fax and electronic correspondence updated.
- Provides students with better examples and current practices and familiarizes students with the latest security issues. Ex.___

Four major documentation systems—MLA, CBE, Numbering Systems, and Chicago Style.
- Provides students with complete review of guidelines for the different systems of documenting work. Ex.___

Checklists, exercises, and writing projects—End each chapter.
- Provides students with strong reinforcement and practice of the concepts learned. Ex.___

New To This Edition

Expanding role of technical writer—Including ethical and legal concerns in communication.
- Familiarizes students with the primary concerns for professional actions, writing, and graphics generation. Ex.___

Collaborative writing—With collaborative exercises and writing projects in each chapter.
- Introduces students to new process, advantages and disadvantages of the growing practice of collaboration. Ex.___

Expanded international/multicultural aspects.
- Provides students with the skills needed in the shrinking global world. Ex.___

100 new graphics and sample page design options.
- Helps students understand when and how to use graphics to devise strategically designed documents. Ex.___

Library computer databases expanded and revised.
- Provides students with up-to-date models for using and documenting electronic sources. Ex.___

Verbal and visual communications expanded.
- Provides students with comprehensive instruction on designing and maintaining websites, video conferencing, and employment videos. Ex.___

New samples—Résumés and cover letters, reports and professional papers, and fax and electronic correspondence updated.
- Provides students with better examples and current practices and familiarizes students with the latest security issues. Ex.___

Table of Contents

I. GENERAL TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES.

1. Explaining Professional and Technical Communications.

2. Executing The Writing Process: Theory and Practice.

3. Utilizing Graphics and Other Visuals.

4. Designing and Producing Documents and Presentations.

II. THE RESEARCH STRATEGIES.

5. Accessing Information.

6. Documenting Research.

III. THE TECHNICAL STRATEGIES.

7. Preparing Manuals.

8. Defining Terms.

9. Describing Mechanisms.

10. Giving Instructions.

11. Analyzing a Process.

IV. THE PROFESSIONAL STRATEGIES.

12. Composing Correspondence.

13. Preparing Résumés, Cover Letters, and Interviews.

14. Writing Brief Reports.

15. Devising Longer Reports, Proposals.

16. Producing Professional Papers.

V. THE PRESENTATION STRATEGIES.

17. Performing Verbal Communications.

18. Managing Visual Communications.

19. Designing and Managing Websites.

Appendix A: Conventions of Construction, Grammar, and Usage.

Appendix B: Punctuation and Mechanical Conventions.

Works Consulted.

Index.

Courses

Tech Comm / Tech Writing (Technical Communication)

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Professional and Technical Writing, 6/E
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©2005 | Longman | Paper; 752 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0131915207 | ISBN-13: 9780131915206
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For freshman and sophomore level courses in Professional and Technical Writing and Communication.

This award-winning text presents students with a comprehensive and straightforward introduction to technical communication. Illustrated throughout with professional and student writing samples from numerous career fields, Professional and Technical Writing 6e is the ideal text to prepare students for the type of writing and communication they will need to master to succeed in their careers.
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Judith S. VanAlstyne taught English at Broward Community College for thirty years and was an adjunct professor at Florida Atlantic University. She has served as an industry technical communications consultant and conducted technical writing workshops and seminars throughout three South Florida counties. Ms. VanAlstyne initiated the Technical Writing Curriculum and Certificate Program at Broward Community College. She has authored numerous graphic design texts, instructional videos for technical writing, and technical workshop/seminar workbooks. In addition to teaching expository and creative writing and literature courses, she introduced the technical writing course curriculum to a private college in Malaysia. She has also published literary criticism, travel articles, and poetry.

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.

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The fifth edition of this successful text is suitable for college and university students at any level. The materials have been tested in academic classes and in training workshops in

The authors include writing samples that illustrate actual writing demands in a crow-section of career fields: architecture, aviation, computer sciences, ecology, engineering, fire science, insurance, real estate, landscape technology, manufacturing, medicine and dentistry, nursing and paramedical fields, pest control technology, and all of the sciences.

Revisions to the fifth edition include:

Coverage of the expanded role of the technical writer with extensive coverage of the ethical and legal concerns in communication.
Expanded discussion of collaborative writing and offers more collaborative writing projects.
38 new illustrative graphics and page design options.
Moving the Research Strategies section to much earlier in the text to reflect the increasing importance research has on technical documents.
A new chapter on Web site design and management in Part Five entitled Presentation Strategies.

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