- Paperback: 672 pages
- Publisher: Harcourt Brace College Publishers; 4th edition (August 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0155083090
- ISBN-13: 978-0155083097
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 19 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 998 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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"By far, this is the smartest and easily accessed chapter on Drafting Visual Elements I've seen in a tech writing textbook. The emphases on the drafting and process as well as the examples are first rate."
"It does a good job of covering all necessary components for technical communication for non-liberal arts majors. [...] I do love these marginal comments and think that is a great strength of the book."
"Anderson's text does an exceptional job of first defining Ethics as it relates to technical communication and then providing guidelines and reminders throughout the text, addressing various writing situations common to workplace writing. [...] Undoubtedly, the author's overall scope reveals an exemplary vision that focuses on the reader's needs instead of the writer's. As it is clear, compelling and consistently implemented, Anderson provides a text that is appropriate for my course. [...] With its attention to issues of ethics, attention to readers' needs, focus on document usability, and focus on persuasive writing, Anderson's Technical Communication: A Reader-Centered Approach superbly integrates real world technical writing applications, guidelines, and formats into a manageable text that enables students to succeed."
"The sample documents are definitely a strength in this textbook. The Writer's Guide chart is excellent. Mingling descriptions and graphics makes the information attractive and accessible. The added tips are helpful."
"It's a fine book with excellent content…the book covers writing genres useful in any field, technical or not." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
"It does a good job of covering all necessary components for technical communication for non-liberal arts majors. [...] I do love these marginal comments and think that is a great strength of the book."
"Anderson's text does an exceptional job of first defining Ethics as it relates to technical communication and then providing guidelines and reminders throughout the text, addressing various writing situations common to workplace writing. [...] Undoubtedly, the author's overall scope reveals an exemplary vision that focuses on the reader's needs instead of the writer's. As it is clear, compelling and consistently implemented, Anderson provides a text that is appropriate for my course. [...] With its attention to issues of ethics, attention to readers' needs, focus on document usability, and focus on persuasive writing, Anderson's Technical Communication: A Reader-Centered Approach superbly integrates real world technical writing applications, guidelines, and formats into a manageable text that enables students to succeed."
"The sample documents are definitely a strength in this textbook. The Writer's Guide chart is excellent. Mingling descriptions and graphics makes the information attractive and accessible. The added tips are helpful."
"It's a fine book with excellent content…the book covers writing genres useful in any field, technical or not." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Book Description
Technical writers need the instruction on communicating electronically as well as designing and creating documents for an electronic medium that Anderson provides. Technical Communication is still a process-oriented text that focuses on audience and purpose while presenting important additional information on writing with new technologies.
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Technical Communication,
By Janet Finlay (Las Cruces, New Mexico United States) - See all my reviews
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A college colleague recommended this book as a teaching resource. It is living up to my expectations. The book is nicely laid out and clearly written. I suggest Technical Communication as a valuable resource for anyone, student or teacher, who writes technical documents.
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This is an excellent and comprehensive guide to tech writing,
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This book is an excellent guide to technical writing. It provides clear, organized recommendations that are supported by research. It provides practical advice for writers in situations ranging from writing reports to reviewing colleagues work to creating web pages and writing email. Although there are 20 chapters, because it's so useful and well-written, it's a pretty quick read. A colleague let me borrow it and I think it's the best book I've found yet on the subject.
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Technical Communications for a Purpose,
By Juan Robertson "College Instructor" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Technical Communication: A Reader-Centered Approach (Paperback)
I am so impressed with the book. My engineering students are pragmatists - they don't like arbitrary rules and someone else's idea of elegance. But this book shows them how to achieve objectives with written communications - something they really get. Effortless (almost) to read and provided with a number of checklist tools to remind the writer what he seeks to do and the means to do so, no student has indicated that this book was "not relevant". I use my copy often to work the academic decision making regime. A salute to Dr. Anderson!
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Very informative and easy to follow,
By Ester Park - Published on Amazon.com
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This book helps readers understand how to write professional writings in most effective way. A lot of visuals and examples helped me a lot with the technical writing course.
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essential text for all engineers,
By tron - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Technical Communication (Paperback)
This text is great. It is worth it for the sample documents alone, but very well worth reading fully to understand the reader centered writing methodology. I reference this text almost every time I am writing a technical document for work or school.
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