A Guide to Writing as an Engineer
David F. Beer
Language: English
Pages: 288
ISBN: 1118300270
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Written for engineers, this book provides more than technical know-how and focuses on how to be an effective communicator. This new edition helps to eliminate the glitches that trip up the busy reader or listener, causing annoyance, confusion, or misunderstanding—so that their writing and speech are crystal clear. This text also focuses on the technical writing and speaking issues encountered in day to day work, writing reports, business letter, memoranda, proposals, emails, presentations, and more. The new edition includes new coverage of social media, including coverage of popular forms, best practices, dangers and ethics of using social media, and expanded coverage of informal communication.
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a heading or title is at the top of the page. • Longer reports often use the page-numbering style known as folio-by-chapter or double-enumeration (for example, pages in Chapter 2 would be numbered 2–1, 2–2, 2–3, and so on). This style eases the process of adding and deleting pages. Note See the chapter in the website companion corresponding to this one for steps on automating page numbers in your reports. For the web address, see the Preface. Cross-References You may need to point readers to
engineers, one of the most common means of showing graphics has traditionally been the overhead projector with transparencies (also known as foils, overheads, visuals, or view graphs) that you prepare in advance. Transparencies have the advantage of letting you add information on them with a wax marker while showing them, or even using additional ones as overlays. If you have several transparencies, remember they can be slippery. It’s embarrassing to see them slide off the table and across the