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  1. A Guide to Writing as an Engineer
    A Guide to Writing as an Engineer
  2. A Guide to Publishing User Manuals (Wiley Technical Communication Library)
    A Guide to Publishing User Manuals (Wiley Technical Communication Library)
  3. Just Resumes: 200 Powerful and Proven Successful Resumes to Get That Job
    Just Resumes: 200 Powerful and Proven Successful Resumes to Get That Job
  4. Psychological Reports: Guide to Report Writing in Professional Psychology
    Psychological Reports: Guide to Report Writing in Professional Psychology
  5. Writing Clearly: A Self-teaching Guide (Wiley Self-teaching Guides)
    Writing Clearly: A Self-teaching Guide (Wiley Self-teaching Guides)
  6. How to Write a Grant Proposal
    How to Write a Grant Proposal
  7. Writing from the Inside Out: Transforming Your Psychological Blocks to Release the Writer Within
    Writing from the Inside Out: Transforming Your Psychological Blocks to Release the Writer Within
  8. Essentials of Assessment Report Writing
    Essentials of Assessment Report Writing
  9. Successful Television Writing
    Successful Television Writing
  10. The Consultant's Guide to Proposal Writing: How to Satisfy Your Clients and Double Your Income
    The Consultant's Guide to Proposal Writing: How to Satisfy Your Clients and Double Your Income
  11. The Law (in Plain English) for Writers
    The Law (in Plain English) for Writers
  12. Proposal Preparation (New Dimensions in Engineering S.)
    Proposal Preparation (New Dimensions in Engineering S.)
  13. Write the Perfect Book Proposal: 10 Proposals That Sold and Why
    Write the Perfect Book Proposal: 10 Proposals That Sold and Why
  14. Effective Writing for Engineers, Managers, Scientists
    Effective Writing for Engineers, Managers, Scientists
  15. Guide for Writing American Business English
    Guide for Writing American Business English
  16. Linking Literacies: Perspectives on L2 Reading-writing Connections
    Linking Literacies: Perspectives on L2 Reading-writing Connections
  17. Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life
    Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life
  18. English in Today's Research World: A Writing Guide (English for Academic & Professional Purposes S.)
    English in Today's Research World: A Writing Guide (English for Academic & Professional Purposes S.)
  19. Treatment of Error in Second Language Student Writing (Michigan Series on Teaching Multilingual Writers)
    Treatment of Error in Second Language Student Writing (Michigan Series on Teaching Multilingual Writers)
  20. How to Write
    How to Write
  21. George Bickham's Penmanship
    George Bickham's Penmanship
  22. Writing About Music
    Writing About Music
  23. The Lawyer's Guide to Writing Well
    The Lawyer's Guide to Writing Well
  24. The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications
    The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications
  25. Business Reports in English (Cambridge Professional English S.)
    Business Reports in English (Cambridge Professional English S.)
Spring Into Technical Writing for Engineers and Scientists (Spring Into... Series)
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Useful as a quick reference
  • Excellent! Highly recommended!
  • Great Book!!
  • Should be on every techie's bookshelf...
  • A Nice Surprise
 Spring Into Technical Writing for Engineers and Scientists (Spring Into... Series)
Barry J. Rosenberg
Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional
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ASIN: 0131498630

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Useful as a quick reference.......2007-04-09

This book is useful as a quick reference when you have a specific question about writing or formatting a document and have a general familiarity with technical writing. If you are completely new to writing technical documents you will be better served by other books that provide more of a guide through the process and document types. This book could also use a section on how to work with professional writers, because not all engineers or scientists need to fully write or produce technical materials.

4 out of 5 stars Excellent! Highly recommended!.......2007-03-10

Spring Into Technical Writing is an excellent introduction to technical writing. The book is written for scientists, engineers, and other professionals who have the need or the desire to improve their technical writing skills. The book is practical, well organized, and easy to read. It is filled with useful advice and has lots of excellent examples.

Rosenberg covers all the essential stuff. He emphasizes understanding your target audience, writing in the active voice, writing clearly and concisely, and explaining concepts with useful examples. He explains how to avoid some common punctuation errors. He shows how to effectively use tables, diagrams, and graphics. He includes excellent how-to chapters on writing document plans, specifications, user manuals, release notes, web content, and grants and proposals. He also explains how to craft intelligent e-mail messages, and how to create effective PowerPoint presentations! This may sound dorky, but in today's world, it is essential advice.

I've been a tech writer for ten years. I found this book to be an excellent refresher, and good reminder to look at my own work more critically. If I ever taught an introductory tech writing class, this would be one of my required texts. While I disagree with some of his advice (about 2%), for the most part I found this book to be one of the most practical, no-nonsense books on tech writing I've ever read.

My only complaint is that the book was not well edited. It has so many (minor) editorial errors, I found myself reading the book with a red pen in my hand. For a book on technical writing, this is inexcusable. For that, I'm only giving it four stars. However, the book's content deserves five-stars. Perhaps they'll make the necessary corrections for the second edition?

5 out of 5 stars Great Book!!.......2005-09-25

There's an interesting story to how I got this book, "Spring Into Technical Writing". I subscribe to a HTML email list that I don't read that often. However, one day, I saw a mention of "Technical Writing" in the subject line and browsed through the email. In the email was a link to a review of "Spring Into Technical Writing".

After reading the review, I was immediately hooked but did not purchase the book immediately. This set up an interesting situation a few weeks later.

I was talking to my old friend one day who works in the East Coast as a technical trainer. I had called her rather late but fortunately she was up. She was relaxing and mentioned she was reading a book by her old boss. Her old boss? Barry Rosenberg. The book? "Spring Into Techncial Writing".

In any case, after finding out the book was written by my friend's old boss, I went online and purchased it a few days later.

The book is an absolute joy to read. It's got a smooth and relaxed style and the humor is good. As someone who has done technical writing (and other writing) for about 1 year on my job, I found a lot of what Barry Rosenberg wrote makes sense. Whether it would be information on how to properly use Power Point slides, email or lists, there's a ton of material for new and old writers to use and reference to.

For those who are considering purchasing this book (and as stated in the book itself), you should be working in some sort of writing capacity to gain the full benefits of this book. If you are someone who wants to see if technical writing is for them, then this isn't the right book and you should consider another book.

For those of us who are already in the writing business, this book has a lot to offer and worth a look.

5 out of 5 stars Should be on every techie's bookshelf..........2005-07-23

I wish I had this book available to me about three years sooner... Spring Into Technical Writing for Engineers and Scientists by Barry J. Rosenberg. I'd be much further ahead in my writing skills, that's for sure...

Contents:
Section 1 - Planning to Write: The Quest; Audience; Documentation Plans
Section 2 - Writing - General Principles: Words; Sentences; Paragraphs and Sections; Lists; Tables; Graphics; Professional Secrets
Section 3 - Writing - Specific Kinds of Documents: Manuals; Web Sites; Proposals; Internal Planning Documents; Lab Reports; PowerPoint Presentations; E-Mail
Section 4 - Editing and Producing Documents: Editing and the Documentation Process; Fonts and Typography; Punctuation; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

The Spring Into series is designed to cover topics in one to three page chunks, short enough to quickly allow the busy professional to get what they need to know. Rosenberg does an excellent job in this book of taking a subject that many people dread or outright hate and making it palatable and doable. He doesn't target the professional writer or English teacher who needs to know about dangling particles and such. This is just down to earth, practical advice. I think that many people will get the most out of section 3 which goes into specific writing situations (reports, email, etc.). Since that's where many people in the business world live, the example-driven nature of those chapters will pay back the time investment of the reader in short order.

As someone who enjoys writing and has worked on it over the last couple of years, there was quite a bit that I already knew when I read the material. The problem is that I had to pick it all up by experience. This book would have saved me an immense amount of time in getting better (as well as saving my readers the pain of having to watch me grow). Still, there's a lot here that I either didn't understand or have to be reminded of constantly. Take active vs. passive voice... I *still* can't get rid of that habit... :-)

If I were the manager of a group of techies who need to use the written word to communicate to users and clients, I'd spend the money to get them all a copy of this book. The techies may not thank you directly, but their customers sure will... :-)

4 out of 5 stars A Nice Surprise.......2005-07-02

I take guilty pleasure from books like Strunks's Elements of Style, etc. The pleasure comes from the nuance of order and rule, while the guilt comes from my own failings from laziness and haste.

This book has some of that; attention is given to use of active voice, punctuation rules and all that. But more importantly,
this is direct and practical advice for the kinds of things many of us do every day: writing email, preparing proposals, creating web pages or Power Point presentatations and so on. The advice is excellent, and the author writes with wit and grace.

I thoroughly enjoyed this, and hope that its title doesn't limit its audience. Anyone who does any business related writing will find value here.
A Guide to Writing as an Engineer
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Useful as a quick reference
  • A Must
  • Exactly what the title says
  • The best tech. writing book by the best writing professor
 A Guide to Writing as an Engineer
David F. Beer , and David McMurrey
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  1. Introduction to Engineering Library Desktop Edition

ASIN: 0471430749

Book Description

Improve the signal-to-noise ratio in your writing!
You'll need more than just technical prowess to succeed as a professional engineer; you'll need to be an effective communicator.
Specifically written to address the needs of engineers, this brief, easy-to-use guide gives you an efficient and direct way to improve your writing and speaking skills. The authors focus on those writing activities that engineers perform on a daily basis, such as reports, business letters, office memoranda, and e-mail, as well as oral presentations.
Now updated to reflect rapid changes in how we communicate, this Second Edition covers writing as part of a project team, plagiarism and ethics, email effectiveness and privacy, presentations using PowerPoint, and applying for jobs using the internet.
With this book, you'll learn how to:
* Reduce the "noise" in your writing, by eliminating grammatical errors, typos, poor organization, and fuzzy thinking.
* Correctly document information taken from other sources.
* Increase your chances of landing the job you want.
* Construct clear and effective graphics.
* Avoid ethical pitfalls.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Useful as a quick reference.......2006-07-06

This book does a good job of focusing on the projects (e.g., reports, memos, proposals, presentations) that engineers are commonly asked to write. It also covers the most common writing mistakes made by engineers (e.g., passive voice). If you need a quick, short answer for a specific task, this book will likely be useful. But it will not provide in-depth training on how to become a better writer. I was also disappointed that it did not address how to work effectively with professional writers or how to provide useful input & reviews - both are common activities for engineers.

5 out of 5 stars A Must.......2005-09-30

Any engineering student, or even current engineers, should invest the money to own a copy of this book. It has a concise list of the proper ways to format reports, papers, publications, articles, etc, as well as rules for the correct way to reference sources, edit bibliographies, and include tables, figures diagrams. Basically a one stop source for any engineering documentation guidelines.

Definitely a work of genius!

5 out of 5 stars Exactly what the title says.......2002-05-31

This book is exactly a guide to the types of writing engineers have to do, put in terms engineers understand.

The authors present analogies that help engineers understand "soft" topics like revising for clarity. For example, they describe poor writing as having a lot of "noise" in the "signal", and then describe specific strategies for reducing noise.

They describe most of the common types of documents that engineers write, such as reports, specifications, proposals, and even business letters and email messages. They describe the format and typical contents for each type of document, while also noting what *not* to worry about. For example "Don't get hung up on the names of reports. Sorry, there is no ANSI standards committee on the proper names, contents, and formats of reports."

This is an excellent book for any engineer who has to write on the job, which is to say, any engineer.

5 out of 5 stars The best tech. writing book by the best writing professor.......1999-06-02

Traditionally, technical writing is the least favored topic for engineers. This nice, concise book is a great guide for those of us who have a hard time remembering the rules and understanding how to communicate effectively.
Pocket Book of Technical Writing for Engineers & Scientists (McGraw-Hill's Best--Basic Engineering Series and Tools)
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • An adequate intro for beginners
Pocket Book of Technical Writing for Engineers & Scientists (McGraw-Hill's Best--Basic Engineering Series and Tools)
Leo Finkelstein
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ASIN: 0073191590

Book Description

The focus of this text is to teach engineering students the skill of technical writing. The book is unique in that it gets to the point, uses practical outlines throughout, and shows students how to produce the most common technical documents step-by-step, in a manner that is fun and interesting to students. Each chapter has an end-of-chapter critique which allows students to implement what they have learned in the chapter.

With ABET increasing the emphasis on technical writing, this affordable, straightforward, easy-to-understand text with flexible coverage, would be a perfect fit for your technical writing course.

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3 out of 5 stars An adequate intro for beginners .......2007-04-09

A college-level textbook, this is an adequate but brief introduction to the types of writing most technology workers will be expected to produce on the job. Although the book includes a unique chapter on writing as part of a team, it does not cover two topics that many engineers and scientists will face at work: 1) writing product descriptions, white papers, and other input for marketing and sales materials; 2) how to be an effective subject expert when working with a professional technical writer or copywriter.
Writing in the Technical Fields: A Step-by-Step Guide for Engineers, Scientists, and Technicians
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    		Writing in the Technical Fields: A Step-by-Step Guide for Engineers, Scientists, and Technicians
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    Using an informal, hands-on approach, this practical guide reviews the basics of good technical writing. It provides a simple, effective system for writing all types of technical documents including letters, memos, minutes, procedures, manuals, proposals, progress reports, and final reports. You will gain a better understanding of the writing process and learn how to: improve the coherence of your writing, write better paragraphs, write better sentences, choose the right word and more.
    Effective Writing for Engineers, Managers, Scientists, 2nd Edition
    Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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    		 Effective Writing for Engineers, Managers, Scientists, 2nd Edition
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    ASIN: 0471807087

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    This book is also available through the Introductory Engineering Custom Publishing System. If you are interested in creating a course-pack that includes chapters from this book, you can get further information by calling 212-850-6272 or sending email inquiries to engineer&atsign;jwiley.com. Good writing is brief and clear. This new edition of the popular handbook offers updated, practical advice on writing effective letters, reports, and memos, while retaining the easy-to-read format that made the first edition so popular. Presents examples of good writing to serve as models and also shows what to avoid. Includes illustrations (many more than in the 1st edition) of many types of good writing, culled from diverse sources. There is new material on writing minutes, news releases, resumes, and style guides. The section on writing reports has been thoroughly revised--every phase from initial organization to final selection of style has been updated to reflect modern practice. Suitable for classroom use or self-study.

    Customer Reviews:

    3 out of 5 stars Too pricey.......2001-05-28

    The information presented in the book is useful but can be found in many other technical writing books and style guides at less than half the price.
    An Engineer's Guide to Technical Communication
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      		An Engineer's Guide to Technical Communication
      Sheryl A. Sorby , and William M. Bulleit
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      ASIN: 0130482420

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      Written by engineers for engineers, this book is designed to provide a complete, practical, engineering-specific introduction to communicating effectively on the job. It helps readers develop the communication skills needed to be successful in the workplace. Real engineering documents are included in each chapter providing helpful guidelines to the preparation of documents. Features comprehensive coverage of the types of written and oral communications used by engineers. Features detailed coverage on the communication of calculations -- design calculation documentation, a critical part of design, experimental and other types of technical reports. A full chapter on visual communication provides detailed coverage of how to present data visually using graphs, charts, tables and drawings. A complete chapter on communication in job searches provides up-to-date coverage of print and electronic job search communication. Also features coverage of grammar and style. For engineers who want to sharpen their basic writing skills for on-the-job documents.

      Scientists Must Write: A Guide to Better Writing for Scientists, Engineers and Students (Routledge Study Guides)
      Average customer rating: 1 out of 5 stars
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      		 Scientists Must Write: A Guide to Better Writing for Scientists, Engineers and Students (Routledge Study Guides)
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      To be effective as a scientist or engineer - professional or student - you must write well. This book, by a scientist, will help you to write: to observe, remember, think and plan; to manage your time and avoid stress; and to improve your communication skills. Extensively revised and updated, this valuable reference takes into account the huge changes in information technology since the very successful first edition.

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      1 out of 5 stars Who was the audience?.......2005-08-14

      I can not recommend this book.

      I wanted to like it. I write, a lot, about technical topics, and am convinced that proper training improve my writing. A few pages in, I found so many errors, both minor and major, that I lost the hope this book would help.

      Minor things included the author's micro-management of whether dates in business letters should be punctuated. (Yes or no, can you guess what he requires? Does it matter?) Another minor point was insistence that a certain line in a business memo be underlined. Underlining was never a great way to emphasize text, and has gotten worse since the 1970s writing of the first edition. Underlining has come to mean "link" in the Web era, and it's safe to assume that most memoranda will be viewed electronically. Underlined but unclickable text causes confusion, and causes more confusion if a paper document is ever fed to an OCR scanner. Text recognition is dicey at best, and adding junk to the letterforms can never help.

      The major problems include notebooks, resumes, and basic English usage. Scientific and engineering notebooks can sometimes approach the status of legal documents. Proper notes can establish primacy of discovery, and can affect the validity of valuable patents. The best notebooks are permanently bound with printed page numbers, giving some assurance that pages weren't added or removed at some later date. Many engineers also favor grid-ruled pages, for aligning text, as 'training wheels' for uncertain sketching skills, and as aids in tables and graphs. Barrass recommends a combination of lined and unlined pages, interleaved from different sources. I'm glad he discusses professional note-taking at all, but I'm disappointed by the discussion.

      Ditto examples. It's great that he presented real text from real publications for critique, and that he stresses the importance of critique. He is simply wrong, however, in asserting (p.36) that "[change] unequalled in magnitude MEANS unequalled." Changes may differ in magnitude, in speed, in visibility, and in as many more dimensions as a creative reader can imagine. I agree that the phrase may be ungainly, and may not be appropriate to the rest of the cited text. Still, it is worthwhile for the writer to point out which aspect of change is under discussion, an idea that Barrass denies.

      His suggested resume (p.28) addresses only the needs of a high-schooler (is this the scientist who must write?), and addresses those badly. It really is as grim as you may imagine. The suggested cover letter (p.27) would be pathetic even for a high-schooler. It never even mentions the job's content, let alone the reason that the applicant feels qualified to apply for the job.

      I admit, I made it only 36 pages into the 190+ of this book. In those first four chapters, however, I found so much bad advice that I simply could not believe the rest of the book would repay the time spent in reading it. Perhaps the next 150+ pages were filled with wisdom, but my budget of trust for this author is bankrupt. I leave it to the next reviewer to describe the good in this book.

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      Effective Writing Strategies for Engineers and Scientists
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        		Effective Writing Strategies for Engineers and Scientists
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        This easy-to-read, concise book is filled with examples, hints, reminders and reviews designed to help engineers and scientists develop effective writing skills. Use the book to learn to write better reports, memos, and journal articles and keep it close at hand when you have questions about organization, clarity and style, writing and revising rough drafts, graphics, workplace writing, computers in writing, and legal issues in writing. The book also contains four helpful appendices on common errors, equations and abbreviations, preparing manuscripts for publication, and documenting information sources. Effective Writing Strategies for Engineers and Scientists provides easy training for the type of writing required of engineers and scientists, gives specific advise for conveying complicated information, and describes how to synthesize information according to specific writing strategies. It is a "must" for every scientist's and engineer's bookshelf.
        Professional Communications: A Handbook for Civil Engineers
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          Professional Communications: A Handbook for Civil Engineers provides practical, comprehensive advice on best practice for professional engineering communications. The purpose of this handbook is to convey information to the reader accurately and simply. Presented are in-depth coverage of the requirements for many forms of documentation, along with editorial conventions, editing and proofreading, writing style, conference or display posters, and oral presentations of technical material. Readers can choose a specific topic and read that chapter; this resourceful handbook does not have to be read sequentially. Engineering professionals and students will benefit from the concise information listed in this handbook about what is needed in an effective engineering document. This handbook is based on Dr. Silyn-Roberts' 15 years of experience as an expert consultant in documentation for many engineering organizations. Since 1997, she has also run annual programs in scientific communication for international graduate schools in Germany.
          Model Letters and Memos: A Handbook for Scientists and Engineers
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            Book Description

            Most scientists, engineers, and other professionals in technical fields are quite comfortable using their analytical skills and carrying out the most detail-oriented research. Yet when it comes to communicating highly technical information to others in a manner that is both clear and concise, even the best minds are often at a loss.

            Model Letters and Memos: A Handbook for Scientists and Engineers shows technically oriented individuals how to communicate their ideas clearly to a wide range of audiences. The author uses two distinct formulas to help compose all kinds of effective, lucidly written correspondence.

            The first formula is a four-step process called "AIDA," which stands for Attention, Interest, Desire, and Action. This formula enables busy professionals to organize their thoughts and communicate them clearly, directly, and accurately.

            The second formula covered in the book, "IBC," or Introduction, Body, and Conclusion, shows how to break down every memo into its three most important parts. Step-by-step and with specific examples, the author illustrates how to set up an introduction, communicate the desired information, and develop a conclusion.

            In addition to these formulas, you'll learn how to: avoid the common pitfalls of writing letters and memos; make correspondence more effective; make lengthy documents more readable; and virtually guarantee that a recipient will read and understand the basic message.

            You'll also find two chapters of boilerplate letters and memos on more than 125 different subjects, all written by technical professionals who are also accomplished writers and communicators. Because they can easily be used as templates for crafting similar communications, these sample letters are included on the computer disk accompanying the text.

            For any technical professional who needs to communicate in writing clearly, quickly, and accurately, Model Letters and Memos: A Handbook for Scientists and Engineers is an indispensable, time-saving resource.

            An invaluable resource for technical professionals who want to communicate their ideas quickly and effectively

            Model Letters and Memos: A Handbook for Scientists and Engineers takes the struggle out of the writing process by demonstrating how to put any kind of information, no matter how technical, into a form that can be easily read and understood.

            This practical, time-saving guide shows you how to:

            This indispensable resource also offers nearly 200 examples of effective technical letters and memos and an accompanying computer disk that includes all the letters and memos in the text for easy and immediate application.

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