Kategoria BISAC: Technology & Engineering >> Technical Writing

New Perspectives on Technical Editing provides readers with a rich picture of a thriving discipline. Its 10 chapters are written by various experts in the field, each of whom looks at technical editing from a distinct vantage point, setting challenging questions and offering authoritative recommendations based on experience and research. Contributors examine significant approaches to the practice and teaching of technical editing: the recommended research methodologies, the not entirely straightforward history of technical editing, effective approaches to developing editing courses, the...

"How to Edit Technical Documents" is the most concise and clearly presented discussion of the editor's role and responsibilities to the writer, the reader, and the publishing process--including changes that result from technological advances in editing. The authors describe the demands of communicating complicated information, in print and on screen, without diminishing the expressive power of language. As a result, users learn the skills necessary to become contributing members of any organization that requires informed and imaginative editors.

• History of muckraking in the food industry
• Case study on groundwater regulation
• Interviews with members of the beef industry and livestock market owners

The iPad. The Kindle. Twitter. When the Best Technology Writing series was inaugurated in 2005, these technologies did not exist. Now they define our 21st-century lives. As Julian Dibbell writes in his introduction to The Best Technology Writing 2010, The digital is us. Yet for that reason, it is also something more, a lightning rod for our feelings about technology in general. Whether it is Sam Anderson s giddy but troubled defense of online distractions, David Carr s full-throated elegy to the dying world of pre-digital publishing, Steven Johnson s warm appreciation of Twitter s...

"Guide to Publishing a Scientific Paper" provides researchers in every field of the biological, physical and medical sciences with all the information necessary to prepare, submit for publication, and revise a scientific paper.

The book includes details of every step in the process that is required for the publication of a scientific paper, for example,

• use of correct style and language
• choice of journal, use of the correct format, and adherence to journal guidelines
• submission of the manuscript in the appropriate format...

How to Write a Paper addresses the mechanics of submission, including electronic submission, and how publishers handle papers, writing letters to journals abstracts for scientific meetings, and assessing papers. This new edition also covers how to write a book review and updated chapters on ethics, electronic publication...

The book outlines the steps a writer needs to go through in creating successful materials....