Kategoria BISAC: Technology & Engineering >> Technical Writing

From the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries in Spain, health-related information in the vernacular began to circulate widely in treatises, compendiums, manuals, plague tracts, summaries, encyclopedias, and recipe collections. These were often the work of concerned physicians who attempted to refashion medical information to appeal to nonprofessionals. In "Fictions of Well-Being" Michael Solomon explores the shaping of this audience of sickly readers, highly motivated individuals who, when confronted with the painful, disruptive, and often alienating conditions of physical disorder,...

Schreiben ist ein zentrales Medium wissenschaftlicher Kommunikation. Die Fahigkeit, wissenschaftliche Texte zu verfassen, ist eine Kompetenz, die den Erfolg in Wissenschaft und Studium wesentlich mitbestimmt. Diese Fahigkeit bedarf systematischer Vermittlung - eine Aufgabe fur Schule und Universitat. Neueste Entwicklungen in der Linguistik erarbeiten Grundlagen fur eine solche Schreibdidaktik. Der Band bietet einen reprasentativen Uberblick uber die aktuelle Diskussion und den derzeitigen Kenntnisstand.

Do you want to save time and boost your career when you write at the office? Business Writing Makeovers: Shortcut Solutions to Improve Your Letters, E-Mails, and Faxes can help.

Hawley Roddick draws on her WriteAssets(r) seminars for Fortune 500 companies to suggest various ways to write for results. She demonstrates, for example, that it is easier than you may imagine to write requests for a raise or promotion, proposals and reports, thank-you or sympathy notes, meeting minutes, e-mails, and sales letters.

Business Writing Makeovers is a seminar in a book at a small fraction of a...

This linguistic guide to writing a scientific paper for submission to a peer-reviewed journal also demonstrates how to address referees comments and responses. It focuses less on grammar and vocabulary, and more on the vital elements of discourse such as tenses and clarity.

The field of technical communication is rapidly expanding in both the academic world and the private sector, yet a problematic divide remains between theory and practice. Here Stuart A. Selber and Johndan Johnson-Eilola, both respected scholars and teachers of technical communication, effectively bridge that gap.

Learning how to write clearly and concisely is an integral part of furthering your research career; however, doing so is not always easy. In this second edition, fully updated and revised, Dr. Silyn-Roberts explains in plain English the steps to writing abstracts, theses, journal papers, funding bids, literature reviews, and more. The book also examines preparing seminar and conference presentations. Written in a practical and easy to follow style specifically for postgraduate students in Engineering and Sciences, this book is essential in learning how to create powerful documents.