Kategoria BISAC: Technology & Engineering >> Technical Writing

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.

Experience Disaster focuses on how emerging social web tools provide researchers and practitioners with new opportunities to address disaster communication and information design for participatory cultures. Both groups, however, currently lack research toolkits for tracing participant networks across systems; there is little understanding of how to design not just for individual social web sites, but how to design across multiple systems. Given the volatile political and ecological climate we are currently living in, the practicality of understanding how people communicate during disasters...

Packed full of anecdotes from the most accomplished presenters around, this book contains all the tools, tips and encouragement you need to make a sensational presentation.

It covers every aspect of presenting, from preparation and planning right through to dealing with nerves and mastering the art of presentation performance.

Brilliant outcomes:

- Learn the top ten tips of presentation mastery

- Discover how to make presentations powerful, colourful and memorable

- Always feel confident and inspired to give it your very best...

Your digital presence tells the story of who you are... so what should you be saying?

In a world overflowing with the noise of Facebook updates, tweets, blog posts, Pinterest pins and YouTube video responses, it's difficult to connect with the people who matter most to your business and your career.

Mastering Story, Community and Influence explains the art of social media storytelling, showing you how to turn your offline expertise into the sort of online thought-leadership that cuts through the noise and attracts larger, more important communities.