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1 online resource : illustrations |
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Open textbook library |
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Open Textbook Library
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Contents |
Introduction. What is Technical Communications? -- Rhetorical Foundations. What is Rhetoric? -- Applications in Technical Communications -- Job Search Communications. Preparing Job Application Materials -- Interview Strategies -- Employment Access, Equity & Opportunity -- Engaging With Research. Common Types of Research Reports & Documents -- Strategies for Conducting Research -- Writing about Research -- Using and Documenting Sources |
Summary |
"Welcome to the textbook for Engineering Technical Communications courses at The Ohio State University. Our aim in writing this textbook was to create a resource specifically focused on and applicable to the kinds of communication skills most beneficial to the students who take our courses. Therefore, this textbook focuses on developing both technical and professional communication skills and will help readers practice strategies for critically analyzing audiences and contexts, real-world applications of rhetorical principles, and skills for producing documents (reports, proposals, instructions), presentations, videos, and wide variety of other professional communications."--Open Textbook Library |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
A Guide to Technical Communications: Strategies & Applications by Lynn Hall & Leah Wahlin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted |
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Online version, 2016; title from PDF (viewed on July 6, 2017) |
Subject |
Telecommunication -- Textbooks
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Technical writing -- Textbooks
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Report writing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Communication in engineering -- Textbooks
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Communication in engineering.
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Report writing.
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Technical writing.
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Telecommunication.
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Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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Textbooks.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Whalin, Leah, author
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Burks, Angela, author
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Burry, Yvonne Heather, author
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Herman, Jennifer L., author
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Kuzawa, Deborah, author
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Open Textbook Library, distributor.
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