Effective Writing

by Christopher Turk, John Kirkman

Effective communication is vital to science, engineering and business management. This thoroughly updated second edition with a new chapter on the use of computers and word-processors gives clear, practical advice illustrated with real-life examples on how to select, organize and present information in reports, papers and other documents.

Genres: Writing

288 pages, Paperback

First published November 24, 1988

Reviews

[Pep · Rating 3 out of 5]

I try to read (or at least dip into) a non-fiction book in parallel with my fiction reading, and this is my current one.

The title of this book should really be Effective Technical Writing. Although it has good general advice, its examples focus on non-creative writing. It is written by a couple of academics, and is very dry.

[Jane · Rating 3 out of 5]

A rather old book on technical writing.
The book gives helpful advices on how to format and arranging the paper or technical report. This is a good book for those who are new on paper writing (it was me one year ago)

I collected some new ideas but not specifically what I was looking for.
At this time, I was looking for books advising style on technical writing like which vocabulary I should and should not use, how to arrange my sentences.

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Chapter 7 on "style for readability" is what I was looking for. It is helpful but seems short to me.

[Gaurami · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book provides clear advice on how to improve your writing skill immediately. Effective writing requires effort, and the authors guide a reader how to direct the effort. What I didn't like in the book - too many negative examles. I would expect the authors to show how to improve every piece of poor writing, but they do it very rarely.