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

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