The IEEE guide to writing in the engineering and technical fields [E-Book] / David Kmiec, Bernadette Longo.
<Strong> Helps both engineers and students improve their writing skills by learning to analyze target audience, tone, and purpose in order to effectively write technical documents </strong> This book introduces students and practicing engineers to all the components of writing in the wor...
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Personal Name(s): | Kmiec, David, author |
Longo, Bernadette, author | |
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
John Wiley and Sons, Inc.,
[2017]
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Physical Description: |
1 online resource. |
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englisch |
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1119070260 9781119070115 9781119070269 1119070112 |
DOI: |
10.1002/9781119070269 |
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IEEE PCS professional engineering communication series
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- A Note from the Series Editor, ix
- About the Authors, xi
- PART I A TECHNIQUE FOR WRITING LIKE A PROFESSIONAL 1
- Introduction, 3
- 1 The Social Situation of Text 7
- The Social Contexts for Technical Writing, 8
- Models of the Writing Environment, 9
- Transmission Models, 10
- Correctness Models, 11
- Cognitive/Behavioral Models, 13
- Social/Rhetorical Models, 14
- This Guide's Approach, 16
- The Rhetorical Situation: Purpose, 18
- The Rhetorical Situation: Audience, 21
- The Rhetorical Situation: Identity, 26
- The Rhetorical Situation: Context, 28
- The Pragmatic Situation: Community and Genre, 29
- 2 Making Writing Decisions 33
- Introduction, 34
- Document Structure and Granularity, 35
- Arranging Text at the Macro Level, 37
- Sectioning and Heading Sections, 39
- Aids for Navigating and Understanding Document Structure, 43
- Creating Effects with Lexis and Syntax at the Micro Level, 45
- Lexical Technique: Word Choice, Technical Terms, and Hedges and Boosters, 47
- Syntactic Technique: Modification, Clausal Arrangement, and Discursive Cueing, 53
- Intermediate Structural Units and Argumentative Movement, 68
- Paragraph Cohesion and Paragraphs as Structural Units of a Document, 69
- Structures Other than Paragraphs, 72
- Citations and Other Intertextual Statements, 73
- Implications for the Process of Writing, 75
- Additional Reading, 77
- PART 2 WRITING DOCUMENTS 79
- Introduction 81
- 3 Writing to Know: Informative Documents 85
- Introduction, 86
- The Purposes of Informative Documents, 86
- Occasions for Preparing an Informative Document, 88
- Audiences for an Informative Document, 88
- Key Communication Strategies When Writing to Know, 90
- Understanding What Constitutes Sufficient Evidence to Support a Claim, 90
- Structuring Evidence in Your Document, 91
- Establishing Expertise, 92
- Questions for Analyzing Existing Documents, 93
- Some Typical Informative Documents, 93
- Reports, 93
- Specifications, 104.
- 4 Writing to Enable: Instructions and Guidance 109
- Introduction, 110
- The Purposes of Enabling Documents, 110
- Occasions for Preparing an Enabling Document, 112
- Audiences for an Enabling Document, 112
- Key Communication Strategies When Writing to Enable, 113
- Anticipating a Document's Use Context, 113
- Deciding How Much Background Is Warranted, 115
- Testing the Document with Users, 116
- Questions for Analyzing Existing Documents, 119
- Characteristic Enabling Documents, 119
- Manuals/Guides and Other Documents That Primarily Contain Instructions/Directions/Procedures, 119
- Tutorials/Training Materials, 128
- Policies, 130
- 5 Writing to Convince: Persuasive Documents 133
- Introduction, 134
- The Purposes of Persuasive Documents, 134
- Occasions for Preparing a Persuasive Document, 135
- Audiences for the Persuasive Document, 136
- Key Communication Strategies When Writing to Convince, 137
- Designing Your Argument to Consider the Audience's Preexisting Beliefs, 137
- Using the Terms and Values of the Audience to Articulate a Shared Goal, 140
- Assuring Outcomes and Benefits without Seeming Unrealistic, 142
- Questions for Analyzing Existing Documents, 143
- Typical Examples of Persuasive Documents, 145
- Proposals, 145
- Business Plans, 149
- 6 Correspondence: Medium of Workplace Collaboration 155
- Introduction, 156
- The Purposes of Correspondence, 157
- Occasions for Preparing Correspondence, 158
- Audiences for Correspondence, 158
- Key Communication Strategies When Corresponding, 160
- Consider Workplace Roles and Official and Unofficial Relationships and Responsibilities, 160
- Evaluate Target Size and Frequency of Communication for a Relationship, 162
- Pause to Reconsider Composition, Time, and Tone before Sending, 163
- Characteristics of Correspondence Documents, 165
- Letters, Memoranda, and E-mails, 165
- Types of Correspondence, 167
- Pre- and Post-meeting Documents: Announcements, Agendas, and Minutes, 170.
- Social Media, 171
- Appendix: IEEE Style for References, 173
- Index, 183.