Synopses & Reviews
Applied Writing for Technicians is a text-workbook intended for use in writing courses for students in technology programs. Using the writing process, students studying various technical fields from electronics to HVAC to medical office to computer networking will develop their written communication skills while creating job-related correspondence. Coverage includes both internal and external job-related correspondence such as proposals for expenditure, and job bids as well as routine information requests and detailed billing reports. Standard conventions and formats for letters, memos, e-mail, and other reports are also covered. This versatile text is intended for use both in classes where students are studying various technical fields and in classes where all of the students share a common major.
Table of Contents
Introduction-Writer's Block
Part I: The Writing Process
Chapter 1 Planning and Writing Your Messages
Chapter 2 Choosing the Best Strategies
Chapter 3 Revising Your Messages
Chapter 4 Editing Your Messages
Chapter 5 Communicating Bad News
Chapter 6 Developing Your Style and The Application Letter
Part II: The Sentence: Purpose and Design
Chapter 7 The Sentence and the Parts of Speech
Chapter 8 Sentence Structure
Chapter 9 Nouns, Pronouns, and Verbs
Chapter 10 Agreement Verbs, and Mood, Misplaced, and Dangling Modifiers
Chapter 11 Capitalization
Punctuation
Chapter 12 Commas, Semicolons, and Colons
Chapter 13 Dashes, Hyphens, and Parentheses
Chapter 14 Apostrophes and End Marks
Part III: Conventions, Formats, and Case Review
Chapter 15 Conventions and Formats
Chapter 16 Case Applications Review