TY - BOOK AU - Huckin,Thomas N. AU - Olsen,Leslie A. ED - The University of Michigan ED - The University of Michigan TI - English for Science and Technology: A Handbook for Nonnative Speakers SN - 0070308217 (hc) PY - 1983/// CY - New York PB - McGraw-Hill KW - Technical writing KW - English language KW - Rhetoric KW - Textbooks for foreign speakers N1 - Includes index; CONTENTS IN BRIEF ; Prefece ; Part I Introduction ; 1 Why Study Technical Communication? ; Part II Review of Basic Writing Principles ; 2 Writing Paragraphs ; 3 Parallelism ; Part III Elements in Preparing to Communicate ; 4 Audiences ; 5 Basic Types and Patterns of Argument ; 6 Orienting the Nonspecialist: The Foreword or Introduction an Summary ; Part IV Visual Elements ; 7 Visual Elements ; Part V Major Genres of Technical Reporting ; 8 The Oral Presentation ; 9 Technical Reports ; 10 The Proposal ; 11 The Business Letter ; 12 The Technical Article ; Part VI Readability ; 13 Making Your Writing Readable: Information Selection ; 14 Making Your Writing Readable: Information Ordering ; 15 Making Your Writing Readable: Editing for Emphasis ; 16 Connectives ; 17 Countability and Indefinite Article ; 18 The Definite Article ; 19 Relative Clauses ; 20 Cohesion ; 21 Modal Verbs ; 22 Verbs ; 23 Proofreading ; 24 Vocabulary Building ; Appendixes ; A Punctuation ; B Informal Conversational Expressions ; C Pronunciation ; Index ER -