Communicating Technical Information: A Guide for the Electronic Age

by Donald Pattow, William Wresch, William Pattow, Donald & Wresch

A survey of the numerous types of spoken, written, and electronic types of communication needed to enter and succeed in the business world. Including numerous examples, the book guides business... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0137612710
• ISBN13: 9780137612710
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 568 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Comprehensive

This is an excellent book that covers many aspects of technical writing from memos, proposals, progress reports, and research reports, to citing references, resumes, and cover letters. However, the book is a bit dry at times (understandably), and is not perfectly organized.

Great tool for aspiring literate engineers

This book is very useful for engineering students or practising engineers who wish to possess excellent technical communication/writing skills. It will put to shame any engineer who claims that scientific mind can't be expected to be too literate. It is so comprehensive, touching upon all aspects of technical writing, such as writing to different audiences, techniques of researching, writing, editing and even how to obtain the most visually pleasing layout for your technical reports. Not only that, it includes some essential information like formats of reports and bibliography. Another big plus is it includes recent writing techniques, like electronic documents. Although a very large chunk of the book deals with technical writing, the authors have also discussed Oral Presentation in one of the last few chapters. I am using this book in my university technical writing course this semester, and I must say that I have benefited tremendously. It's really a must for everyone who deals with presentation of technical information in their work / daily life. And in the case of engineers, doesn't that "everyone" include all of us?