TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION A Reader Centered Approach

• Main Author: Anderson, Paul V. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Fort Worth Harcourt Brace College Publishers 1999
• Edition: Fourth edition
• Subjects: English language > Problems, exercises, etc. > Technical English; Communication of technical information > Problems, exercises, etc; Technical writing > Problems, exercises, etc
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• Physical Description: xxiv, 643 pages : illustrations 23 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 629-632) and indexes
• ISBN: 9780155083097

Technical Communication: A Reader-Centered Approach is a process-orientated textbook in which the central advice to students remains the smae: think constantly about your readers -- whether you are preparing messages that will be read on paper or viewed on a computer screen. As in earlier editions, every chapter, reference guide, and appendix conveys specific, useful advice built upon hard-won insights that researchers have gained concerning the ways people read in the workplace. By following the easy-to-remember guidelines in Technical Communication: A Reader-Centered Approach, students can become confident, flexible, resourceful writers who know how to size up a situation and then plan and draft a communication that will achieve an outcome that they and their readers both desrie.