Huckin, Thomas N. <br/><br/>
English for Science and Technology :  A Handbook for Nonnative Speakers / 
Thomas N. Huckin and Leslie A. Olsen. 
 - New York :  McGraw-Hill,  1983. 
 - 549 p. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes index. 
<br/><br/>CONTENTS IN BRIEF<br/> Prefece<br/> Part I Introduction<br/>  1 Why Study Technical Communication?<br/> Part II Review of Basic Writing Principles<br/>  2 Writing Paragraphs<br/>  3 Parallelism<br/> Part III Elements in Preparing to Communicate<br/>  4 Audiences<br/>  5 Basic Types and Patterns of Argument<br/>  6 Orienting the Nonspecialist: The Foreword or Introduction an Summary<br/> Part IV Visual Elements<br/>  7 Visual Elements<br/> Part V Major Genres of Technical Reporting<br/>  8 The Oral Presentation<br/>  9 Technical Reports<br/>  10 The Proposal<br/>  11 The Business Letter<br/>  12 The Technical Article<br/> Part VI Readability<br/>  13 Making Your Writing Readable: Information Selection<br/>  14 Making Your Writing Readable: Information Ordering<br/>  15 Making Your Writing Readable: Editing for Emphasis<br/>  16 Connectives<br/>  17 Countability and Indefinite Article<br/>  18 The Definite Article<br/>  19 Relative Clauses<br/>  20 Cohesion<br/>  21 Modal Verbs<br/>  22 Verbs<br/>  23 Proofreading<br/>  24 Vocabulary Building<br/> Appendixes<br/>  A Punctuation<br/>  B Informal Conversational Expressions<br/>  C Pronunciation<br/>  Index 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0070308217 (hc) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Technical writing.<br/>English language--Rhetoric.<br/>English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.