TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION: A PRACTICAL APPROACH SEVENTH EDITION

Technical Communication: A Practical Approach 7e emphasizes one simple principle– you learn to write better by doing as much writing as possible. Using numbered guidelines and an ABC format, the book shows how to write a variety of technical documents and gets students practicing at the beginning of the book. This edition features new material on modular writing, a new chapter on collaborative writing and a comprehensive case study that reflects globalization and ethics issues.

Ch 1:Process in Technical Communication

Ch 2:M-Global, Inc.: Ethics and Globalism in the Workplace

Ch 3:Organizing Information

Ch 4:Page Design

Ch 5:Letters, Memos, and Electronic Correspondence

Ch 6:Definition and Description

Ch 7:Instructions and Process Explanations

Ch 8:Informal Reports

Ch 9:Formal Reports

Ch 10:Proposals and Feasibility Studies

Ch 11:Web Pages and Writing for the Web

Ch 12:Graphics

Ch 13:Collaborative Writing

Ch 14:Oral Communication

Ch 15:Technical Research

Ch 16:The Job Search

Ch 17:Style in Technical Writing