Writing for the Technical Professions

By Kristin Woolever

Presents practical advice for anyone who is, or will be, working in the technical professions. It introduces the world of technical communication, the types of documents that technical professionals... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321011228
• ISBN13: 9780321011220
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 1.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Great Reference Tool

This is a excellent resource for actual professionals or those just getting started in tech writing. Contents include everyday documentation like emails, reports, and RFP responses as well as sections on international communication. It also covers style and rhetorical strategy (pathos anyone?). I used this book for a college course then kept it for my work in the real world, writing user guides for technology classrooms at my University. It is designed as a handbook and not a textbook so some chapters may be repetitive if you a reading from cover to cover. Those of you looking for long drowned out chapters of text with no meat should look elsewhere. I hear there is a 4th edition floating around somewhere.