Technical Writing: Principles, Strategies and Readings

by Diana C. Reep

Technical Writing: Principles, Strategies, and Readings offers a flexible combination of instructional chapters and readings that reflect the variety of emphases in today's technical writing classroom. The fifteen instructional chapters offer a general introduction to technical communication, while 24 articles from professional journals and Web sites--which constitute about one-fourth of the text--offer insight and advice on specific communication topics, including writing for the Web. Strategy Boxes in each chapter also introduce students to important subjects related to technical communication, such as voice mail and videoconferencing. Each concise and self-contained instructional unit includes extended models and exercises which can be used in class or for collaborative or homework assignments. Students who study technical writing as part of their career preparation in science, business, engineering, social services, and technical fields will find this text particularly useful.

Genres: Reference, Writing

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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