FranklinCovey Style Guide for Business and Technical Communication

FranklinCovey Style Guide for Business and Technical Communication
Author: Stephen R. Covey
Publisher: FT Press
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0133090396

This book can help any writer produce documents that achieve outstanding results. Created by FranklinCovey, the world-renowned leader in helping organizations enhance individual effectiveness, this edition fully reflects today?s online media and global business challenges.

Technical and Business Writing for Working Professionals

Technical and Business Writing for Working Professionals
Author: Ray E. Hardesty
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2010-12-15
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1456819402

"Filled with Mr. Hardestys knowledge and experience from over 25 years in the fields of technical and business communication, this highly accessible, clearly written volume is both a grammar review and a guide to the main topics in technical and business writing. It is an invaluable aid for working professionals in all fields who find that they must now learn to be good writers and communicators."

The Profession and Practice of Technical Communication

The Profession and Practice of Technical Communication
Author: Yvonne Cleary
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2021-07-30
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1000407349

This practical text offers a research-based account of the technical communication profession and its practice, outlining emergent touchpoints of this fast-changing field while highlighting its diversity. Through research on the history and the globalization of technical communication and up-to-date industry analysis, including first-hand narratives from industry practitioners, this book brings together common threads through the industry, suggests future trends, and points toward strategic routes for development. Vignettes from the workplace and examples of industry practice provide tangible insights into the different paths and realities of the field, furnishing readers with a range of entry routes and potential career sectors, workplace communities, daily activities, and futures. This approach is central to helping readers understand the diverse competencies of technical communicators in the modern, globalized economy. The Profession and Practice of Technical Communication provides essential guidance for students, early professionals, and lateral entrants to the profession and can be used as a textbook for technical communication courses.

Uncertain Archives

Uncertain Archives
Author: Nanna Bonde Thylstrup
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 638
Release: 2021-02-02
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0262539888

Scholars from a range of disciplines interrogate terms relevant to critical studies of big data, from abuse and aggregate to visualization and vulnerability. This pathbreaking work offers an interdisciplinary perspective on big data, interrogating key terms. Scholars from a range of disciplines interrogate concepts relevant to critical studies of big data--arranged glossary style, from from abuse and aggregate to visualization and vulnerability--both challenging conventional usage of such often-used terms as prediction and objectivity and introducing such unfamiliar ones as overfitting and copynorm. The contributors include both leading researchers, including N. Katherine Hayles, Johanna Drucker and Lisa Gitelman, and such emerging agenda-setting scholars as Safiya Noble, Sarah T. Roberts and Nicole Starosielski.

Technical Communication

Technical Communication
Author: Mike Markel
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 804
Release: 2009-02-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780312485979

Comprehensive and truly accessible, Technical Communication guides students through planning, drafting, and designing the documents that will matter in their professional lives. Known for his student-friendly voice and eye for technology trends, Mike Markel addresses the realities of the digital workplace through fresh samples and cases, practical writing advice, and a companion Web site — TechComm Web — that continues to set the standard with content developed and maintained by the author. The text is also available in a convenient, affordable e-book format.

A Strategic Guide to Technical Communication - Second Edition (US)

A Strategic Guide to Technical Communication - Second Edition (US)
Author: Heather Graves
Publisher: Broadview Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2012-05-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1770483381

A Strategic Guide to Technical Communication incorporates useful and specific strategies for writers, to enable them to create aesthetically appealing and usable technical documentation. These strategies have been developed and tested on a thousand students from a number of different disciplines over twelve years and three institutions. The second edition adds a chapter on business communication, reworks the discussion on technical style, and expands the information on visual communication and ethics into free-standing chapters. The text is accompanied by a passcode-protected website containing materials for instructors (PowerPoint lectures, lesson plans, sample student work, and helpful links).

Scenarios for Technical Communication

Scenarios for Technical Communication
Author: Teresa C. Kynell
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Communication of technical information
ISBN: 9780205275243

In today's fast-paced work environment, where e-mail, fax machines, and FedEx have transformed the waypeople communicate, the ability to write succinctly and effectively onthe job can mean the difference between gaining or losing business. Based on the belief that real world simulations of workplace writingsituations provide the best opportunities for improvement, this bookinvites readers to consider actual relationships, situations, and theintangible elements that affect workplace writing. The tips and techniques offered in this book help readers developcritical thinking abilities in conjunction with occasions to practicerealistic workplace writing. Individual scenarios of various lengthsand levels of complexity provide abundant opportunities for readersto practice technical writing forms and learn about importantprinciples. Technical writers, business people, writersand workers training for such positions.

Key Theoretical Frameworks

Key Theoretical Frameworks
Author: Angela M. Haas
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2018-10-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1607327589

Drawing on social justice methodologies and cultural studies scholarship, Key Theoretical Frameworks offers new curricular and pedagogical approaches to teaching technical communication. Including original essays by emerging and established scholars, the volume educates students, teachers, and practitioners on identifying and assessing issues of social justice and globalization. The collection provides a valuable resource for teachers new to translating social justice theories to the classroom by presenting concrete examples related to technical communication. Each contribution adopts a particular theoretical approach, explains the theory, situates it within disciplinary scholarship, contextualizes the approach from the author’s experience, and offers additional teaching applications. The first volume of its kind, Key Theoretical Frameworks links the theoretical with the pedagogical in order to articulate, use, and assess social justice frameworks for designing and teaching courses in technical communication. Contributors: Godwin Y. Agboka, Matthew Cox, Marcos Del Hierro, Jessica Edwards, Erin A. Frost, Elise Verzosa Hurley, Natasha N. Jones, Cruz Medina, Marie E. Moeller, Kristen R. Moore, Donnie Johnson Sackey, Gerald Savage, J. Blake Scott, Barbi Smyser-Fauble, Kenneth Walker, Rebecca Walton