This invaluable resource guides engineers through the technical writing issues that they must know in order to succeed in the field. The third edition includes numerous new examples integrated throughout the chapters that illustrate content, organization, and format of different types of documents. New material on the useful aspects of passive voice is added, such as when the actor is known/obvious and when emphasis needs to be on the recipient of the action. Discussions are included on plagiarism, ethics, and citing material properly. In order to accomplish this, the IEEE system of documenting sources is presented. Engineers will also benefit from the startup help for using PowerPoint or other software for their presentations as well as strategies for using such materials.

A Guide to Writing As an Engineer

Engineering & Transportation

Beer, David

McMurrey, David

Engineering

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

Improve the signal-to-noise ratio in your writing! You'll need more than just technical prowess to succeed as a professional engineer; you'll need to be an effective communicator. Specifically written to address the needs of engineers, this brief, easy-to-use guide gives you an efficient and direct way to improve your writing and speaking skills. The authors focus on those writing activities that engineers perform on a daily basis, such as reports, business letters, office memoranda, and e-mail, as well as oral presentations. Now updated to reflect rapid changes in how we communicate, this Second Edition covers writing as part of a project team, plagiarism and ethics, email effectiveness and privacy, presentations using PowerPoint, and applying for jobs using the internet. With this book, you'll learn how to: * Reduce the "noise" in your writing, by eliminating grammatical errors, typos, poor organization, and fuzzy thinking. * Correctly document information taken from other sources. * Increase your chances of landing the job you want. * Construct clear and effective graphics. * Avoid ethical pitfalls.

It's Monday morning and you have people to visit and meetings to prepare. And there's a building to worry about, and junk mail to junk. How do you tread the path between vision and reality, or turn the tide from surviving church to thriving church? These 50 Purpose-Driven principles will help.

50 Ways to Help Your Church Grow

Religion & Spirituality

Kingsway Communications

Metric Power

This book examines the powerful and intensifying role that metrics play in ordering and shaping our everyday lives. Focusing upon the interconnections between measurement, circulation and possibility, the author explores the interwoven relations between power and metrics. He draws upon a wide-range of interdisciplinary resources to place these metrics within their broader historical, political and social contexts. More specifically, he illuminates the various ways that metrics implicate our lives – from our work, to our consumption and our leisure, through to our bodily routines and the financial and organisational structures that surround us. Unravelling the power dynamics that underpin and reside within the so-called big data revolution, he develops the central concept of Metric Power along with a set of conceptual resources for thinking critically about the powerful role played by metrics in the social world today.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

This book examines the powerful and intensifying role that metrics play in ordering and shaping our everyday lives. Focusing upon the interconnections between measurement, circulation and possibility, the author explores the interwoven relations between power and metrics. He draws upon a wide-range of interdisciplinary resources to place these metrics within their broader historical, political and social contexts. More specifically, he illuminates the various ways that metrics implicate our lives – from our work, to our consumption and our leisure, through to our bodily routines and the financial and organisational structures that surround us. Unravelling the power dynamics that underpin and reside within the so-called big data revolution, he develops the central concept of Metric Power along with a set of conceptual resources for thinking critically about the powerful role played by metrics in the social world today.

The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception (Society and Space)

A significant new way of understanding contemporary capitalism is to understand the intensification and spread of data analytics. This text is about the powerful promises and visions that have led to the expansion of data analytics and data-led forms of social ordering. It is centrally concerned with examining the types of knowledge associated with data analytics and shows that how these analytics are envisioned is central to the emergence and prominence of data at various scales of social life.&nbsp; This text aims to understand the powerful role of the data analytics industry and how this industry facilitates the spread and intensification of data-led processes. As such,&nbsp;The Data Gaze&nbsp;is concerned with understanding how data-led, data-driven and data-reliant forms of capitalism pervade organisational and everyday life. Using a clear theoretical approach derived from Foucault and critical data studies, the text develops the concept of the&nbsp;data gaze&nbsp;and shows how powerful and persuasive it is. It's an essential and subversive guide to data analytics and data capitalism. &nbsp;

Sage Publications Ltd.

The Tensions of Algorithmic Thinking: Automation, Intelligence and the Politics of Knowing

Sociology

Bristol University Press

Social media platforms hold vast amounts of biographical data about our lives. They repackage our past content as 'memories' and deliver them back to us. But how does that change the way we remember? Drawing on original qualitative research as well as industry documents and reports, this book critically explores the process behind this new form of memory making. In asking how social media are beginning to change the way we remember, it will be essential reading for scholars and students who are interested in understanding the algorithmically defined spaces of our lives.

Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory: Classification, Ranking and the Sorting of the Past

Jacobsen, Ben

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Beer, David. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Beer, David

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Beer, David. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

A Guide to Writing As an Engineer

A Guide to Writing As an Engineer

50 Ways to Help Your Church Grow

Metric Power

Metric Power

The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception (Society and Space)

The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception (Society and Space)

The Tensions of Algorithmic Thinking: Automation, Intelligence and the Politics of Knowing

The Tensions of Algorithmic Thinking: Automation, Intelligence and the Politics of Knowing

Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory: Classification, Ranking and the Sorting of the Past