The Writing System: A Step-By-Step Guide for Business and Technical Writers

by Daniel O. Graham

Book Overview

The Writing System provides a step-by-step process for writing better documents faster. Each step has practical techniques with exercises and answers. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0964449579
• ISBN13: 9780964449572
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Preview Press
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 2.73 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Outstanding

I had an opportunity to take a 3 day course with Dan Graham. The book was part of the course. Using his book and seeing Dan in action is a great experience. This book will be near me at all times when I write. Thanks Dan!!

A great book that teaches how to write technical reports and papers.

This is a phenomenal book that teaches a person how to write scientific-style documents such as peer-reviewed articles and technical reports. If you have problems with writing or struggle to quickly write a paper, this book will help. Writing is a large part of high-tech careers, but the techniques of writing in a scientific/engineering style are not taught in school. Most of us learn from on-the-job training--resulting in a time-consuming and inefficient process. This book teaches a systematic process that will get you from no paper to a polished paper in a surprisingly short period of time. The left hand side of each book page covers a specific point. The right hand side has numerous exercises to help illustrate that point, and solutions to the exercises are included. For me, the chapters on how to edit your document are worth the price of the book. I was never taught how to edit, and never realized that my editing technique was poor. I could recognize sentences in my document that I didn't like, but couldn't determine what was wrong with them. After working through chapters 9 and 10, I can fix these problems quickly.

Engineers, Scientists, Physicians - Writing Delight!

Engineers! Scientists! Physicians! Lend me your pinnae! Listen up you professional ladies and lads! This is THE writing course/guide/reference for folks who know everything about their area of expertise, and have NO idea how to write about it clearly, expertly, professionally... Even if you have some skill in academic writing, you can vastly increase the quality and readability of your prose using this book. And if you, like many of us, "don't have a clue" about how to turn out clear, concise and readable prose for your chosen audience - this book will teach you how to do it in a systematic, repeatable, easy to master way! This book and course is especially useful to intelligent, organized, experienced professionals who never quite "got" it when it comes to good writing. This book WILL make you an accomplished and confident writer if you take the time to work through it! No more "writing anxiety"...ever. As close to an educational "sure thing" as you are ever likely to find! I used this book in Graham's writing class, and for the first time in my life, at age 59, I "get" it... Guess what - it's a science, not an art! What a revelation...

This should be on every engineer's bookshelf

So many engineers are excellent scientists and mathematicians, but are sorely lacking when it comes to grammar and writing techniques. This book acts as a textbook, a refresher, and a desk reference, all in one concise, easy-to-follow volume. The techniques presented in this book introduce a whole new system of writing and revision that will lead to more efficient document creation.A must-have for any reference library, especially for any engineer who frequently writes reports, papers, and journal articles.