Name: Technical Writing for Success, 4th
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Technical Writing for Success, 4th

Help students access their true potential with TECHNICAL WRITING FOR SUCCESS, Fourth Edition! This engaging and practical approach to workplace writing helps you guide students in the process of thinking, listening, researching, planning, composing, revising, and editing documents for use in business, science, hi-tech, and other demanding fields. Packed with active learning features from Cengage, this text makes it easy to show the importance of regular writing practice as students produce their own proposal content, manual instructions, informative briefs, lab reports, news releases, and other documents they won’t see in general communications courses. Sample documents, critical thinking questions, expanded content on oral presentations, and insightful writing advice on style and voice add to this inclusive text—empowering you empower tomorrow’s best technical writers.

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1. WHAT IS TECHNICAL WRITING? 
2. AUDIENCE AND PURPOSE 
3. TECHNICAL RESEARCH. 
Conducting Technical Research. Researching at Work. Finding Secondary Data. Documenting Secondary Sources. Evaluating Sources. Taking Notes from Sources. Collecting Primary Data. 
4. WRITING PROCESS. 
A Process for Technical Writing. Planning. Drafting and Revising. Copyediting and Publishing. Writing Collaboratively. 
5. BRIEF CORRESPONDENCE. 
Introduction to Text Messages, E-mails, Memos, and Letters. Audience. Prewriting. Formatting. Composing the Message. 
6. DOCUMENT DESIGN AND GRAPHICS. 
Designing the Document. Who Reads Graphics? Designing Graphics. Constructing Graphics. 
7. WRITING FOR THE WEB. 
Getting Started on Web Pages. Organizing and Designing Web Pages. Writing Text for the Web. Special Web Pages. 
8. INFORMATIVE REPORTS. 
Getting Started on Informative Reports. Summary and Abstract. Mechanism Description. Periodic Reports. Progress Reports. News Releases.
9. INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS. 
Incident Report. Trip Report. Science Lab Report. Forensic Report. 
10. INSTRUCTIONS. 
Getting Started on Instructions. Organizing and Formatting Instructions. Composing Instructions. 
11. EMPLOYMENT COMMUNICATION. 
Getting Started on Employment Communication. Formatting and Organizing Resumes. Types of Resumes. Composing Resumes. Composing Employment Letters. 
12. PRESENTATIONS. 
Getting Started on Presentations. Planning. Organizing and Composing. Preparing. Rehearsing. Presenting. Organizing a Group Presentation. 
13. RECOMMENDATION REPORTS. 
What is a Recommendation Report? Starting a Recommendation Report. Formatting and Organizing Recommendation Reports. Composing Recommendation Reports. 
14. PROPOSALS. 
15. ETHICS IN THE WORKPLACE. 
16. TECHNICAL READING. 

Appendix: Inside Track. 
You Attitude. Tone. Parallelism. Economy. Using Numbers. Clarity. Active and Passive Voice. Gender Unbiased Language. Effective Transitions.

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