Technical Writing: Principles, Strategies, and Readings

by Diana C. Reep

Covering various types of technical writing, including information on telecommunications and international communication factors, this text includes the basics of grammar, punctuation and mechanics, as well as providing 28 readings with additional material on subjects such as business etiquette for the 90s and the use of colour in technical documents. Models and exercises to help reader the basics in constructing various types of technical documents.

Genres: Reference, Writing

604 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Diana Reep, writing as D. C. Reep, has been a writer since she told horror stories to classmates in elementary school. As an English professor, she taught film, popular culture, technical writing, and the Arthurian legend. No longer grading papers, she’s writing historical fiction set around 1900. In her free time, she travels to historic sites, Civil War battlefields being a special favorite. Her books focus on real events. The Dangerous Summer of Jesse Turner, follows three teens into danger with Colonel Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War of 1898. Kiss’d, a YA adventure, combines a ghost, time travel, danger, and romance in World War I. Chicago Movie Girls is a story about three sisters in the early silent movie days when Chicago was a center for movie production. Luke Under Fire begins with the first big battle of WW1 and a regiment ordered to resist to the end. She lives in the Midwest and crosses her fingers every fall that the coming winter will be mild.

Reviews

[John McLaughlin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I used an earlier edition of this book the last time I taught Technical Writing, at East Stroudsburg University ( www.esu.edu ). I do not think it has ever fallen below the gold standard in a technical writing textbook. I recommend not only its excellent organization (Tell them what you're going to tell them: Tell them: Tell them what you told them), but its lively, vivid writing. This textbook goes with my complete five-star recommendation, which it does not need for continued success.

[Ella · Rating 5 out of 5]

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