(eBook PDF) Technical Communication 11th Edition – Digital Ebook – Instant Delivery Download
product details:
- ISBN-10 : 1457673371
- ISBN-13 : 978-1457673375
- Author: Mike Markel
Instructors know that Mike Markel’s Technical Communication will prepare their students for any workplace writing situation. No other text offers such a comprehensive introduction to the field while still delivering practical, effective support for students at every level. The eleventh edition has been thoroughly revised to reframe the work of technical communicators in the context of today’s highly collaborative, rapidly evolving digital practices. Fresh, social-media driven sample documents and coverage of the latest tools and technologies ensure that students work with the kinds of processes and products they’ll encounter on the job.
The text is now accompanied and enhanced by LaunchPad for Technical Communication, an online course space with an interactive e-book, multimedia sample documents for analysis, tutorials on digital writing tools, a new test bank, Learning Curve adaptive quizzes that give students more ways to master the material, and much more. Get all our great course-specific materials in one fully customizable space online; then assign and mix our resources with yours.
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table of contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction to Technical Communication
Chapter 2: Preparing an Effective Technical Document
Chapter 3: Delivering Usable information
Chapter 4: Being Persuasive
Chapter 5: Weighing the Ethical Issues
Chapter 6: Working in Teams
Chapter 7: Thinking Critically about the Research Process
Chapter 8: Exploring Electronic and hard Copy Sources
Chapter 9: Exploring Primary sources
Chapter 10: Evaluating and interpreting information
Chapter 11: Summarizing and Abstracting Information
Chapter 12: Organizing for Users
Chapter 13: Editing for Readable Style
Chapter 14: Designing Visual information
Chapter 15: Designing Pages and Documents
Chapter 16: Memo Reports and Electronic Correspondence
Chapter 17: Workplace Letters
Chapter 18: Employment Correspondence
Chapter 19: Web Pages
Chapter 20: Technical definitions
Chapter 21: Technical Descriptions and Specifications
Chapter 22: Instructions and Procedures
Chapter 23: Proposals
Chapter 24: Formal Analytical Reports
Chapter 25: Front Matter and End Matter in Long Documents
Chapter 26: Oral Presentations
Appendix A: A Quick Guide to Documentation
Appendix B: A Quick Guide to Grammar Usage
Appendix C: A Casebook: The Writing Process Illustrated