The Essentials of Technical Communication

Sam Dragga

Elizabeth Tebeaux

Oxford University Press Academic US

<p>AuthorGwendolyn Gong, Sam DraggaNumber Of Pages608 pagesFormatTrade ClothPublication Date1995-01-07LanguageEnglishPublisherLongman Publishing</p>

A Writer's Repertoire: Includes 1999 MLA Guidelines

Reference

Gwendolyn Gong

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Longman

<p>Alternate Thematic Contents.  Prologue.  Introduction.  Critical Reading.  Planning.  Translating.  Reviewing.  Readers.  Perspectives and Influences.  Reading Perspectives.  Internal and External Influences.  Understanding the Rhetorical Situation.  Determining Aims.  Analyzing Ways of Knowing.  Developing Your Reading Repertoire.  Gary Soto, The Pie.   I: READING EXPRESSIVE AIM WRITING.   1. Knowledge by Participation.  T.H. Watkins, Little Deaths.  Marion Winik, Meditations on a Stolen Purse.  Joseph H. Suina, And Then I Went to School.  Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me.  A. Alvarez, Sylvia Plath: A Memoir.  Harriet Lerner, Hating Fred.  Frank DeFord, Lessons from a Friend.  Sandra Cisneros, Only Daughter.  Jay Ford, 20/20 Hindsight.  2. Knowledge by Observation.  Kai Erikson, Of Accidental Judgments and Casual Slaughters.  David Gelman, Columbus and His Four Fateful Voyages.  Virginia Woolf, Thoreau.  Daniel Mark Epstein, The Case of Harry Houdini.  3. Knowledge by Participation and Observation.  Steven Levy, My Search for Einstein''s Brain.  Leslie Lampert, Fat Like Me.  Cynthia Ozick, My Grandmother''s Pennies.  Bruce Edward Hall, Ghosts.  Donald McQuade, Living In and On the Margins.  Nancy Mairs, On Being a Cripple.  Mary Gordon, More Than Just a Shrine: Paying Homage to the Ghosts of Ellis Island.  Walt Harrington, The House Where Martin Wept.  N. Scott Momaday, Grandmother''s Country.  Michael Kernan, A New Monument to Remembering With a Mission.   II: READING REFERENTIAL AIM WRITING.   1. Knowledge by Participation.  Amoja Three Rivers, Cultural Etiquette: A Guide.  Noel Perrin, Falling for Apples.  Phyllis Theroux, Shopping with Children.  Garrison Keillor, How to Write a Letter.  2. Knowledge by Observation.  Patricia Goubil Gambrell, A Practitioner''s Guide To Research Methods.  Anthony R. Perry, Kevin M. Kane, Kevin J. Bernesser, Paul T. Spicker, Type A Behavior, Competitive Achievement, Striving, and Cheating Among College Students.  Josiah Ober and Catherine Vanderpool, Athenian Democracy.  Renee Loth, The Big New Mix.  Jimmy A. Frazier, Eldon E. Snyder, The Underdog Concept in Sport.  Rebecca Leonard, Don C. Locke, Communication Stereotypes: Is Interracial Communication Possible?  Gerald M. Murch, Using Color Effectively: Designing To Human Specifications.  3. Knowledge by Participation and Observation.  Judith Viorst, Friends, Good Friends and Such Good Friends.  Richard Wolkomir, An Architect Who Takes Stairways One Step at a Time.  Issac Asimov, What Do You Call a Platypus?  Robert J. Sternberg, Janet E. Davidson, The Mind of the Puzzler.  Chiori Santiago, Luis Jimenez''s Outdoor Sculptures Slow Traffic Down.  Matt Cartmill, The Bambi Syndrome.  Linda Hatchel, Peach Preserves and "A New Texas": A Rhetorical Analysis of the Inaugural Addresses of "Ma" Ferguson and Ann Richards.  Marina Oppenheimer, Alma''s Bedside Ghost: Or the Importance of Cultural Similarity.  Fred H. Harrington, The Man Who Cries Wolf.  Jane and Michael Stern, The Indian Image.  Cartriona T. Higgs, Karen H. Weiller, Gender Bias and the 1992 Summer Olympic Games: An Analysis of Television Coverage.  Beth Livermore, Amphibian Alarm: Just Where Have All the Frogs Gone?   III: READING PERSUASIVE AIM WRITING.   1. Knowledge by Participation.  Terence Rafferty, Outlaw Princesses.  Arlene B. Hirschfelder, It Is Time to Stop Playing Indians.  Mike Royko, Farewell to Fitness.  Jill Frawley, Inside the Home.  Dorsett Bennett, I, Too, Am a Good Parent.  2. Knowledge by Observation.  Ronald E. Hall, The "Bleaching Syndrome": Implications of Light Skin for Hispanic American Assimilation.  Cynthia Crossen, The Data Game.  Betty Rollin, The Motherhood Myth.  Robert Sherrill, Murder, Inc.  3. Knowledge by Participation and Observation.  Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Fenimore Cooper''s Literary Offenses.  Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail.  Jason DeParle, Warning: Sports Stars May Be Hazardous to Your Health.  Alleen Pace Nilsen, Sexism in English: A 1990s Update.  Amy Tan, The Language of Discretion.  HaunaniKay Trask, From a Native Daughter.  Vita Wallace, Give Children the Vote.  Michael Pollan, Why Mow: The Case Against Lawns.  Karen L. Slattery, Sensationalism Versus News of the Moral Life: Making the Distinction.  Joy Williams, The Killing Game.  Rod Carveth, Amy Fisher and the Ethics of "Headline" Docudramas.  Sylvester Monroe, Hollywood: The Dark Side.  David A. Bella, Rethinking the Unthinkable.  Robert A. Archibald, History is Not a Museum.</p>

A Reader's Repertoire: Aims and Perspectives

Words, Language & Grammar

Harpercollins College Div

Editing: The Design of Rhetoric (Baywood's Technical Communications)

This book is intended to familiarize readers with the theoretical basis and practical applications of the editing process. This involves the examination of the rhetorical canons-invention, arrangement, style, delivery; and the corresponding rhetorical objectives of editing - accuracy, clarity, propriety, and artistry. We envision a diverse audience for this book. For aspiring editors, we offer an introduction to rhetorical principles as a vehicle for developing a repertoire of theoretically sound and effective strategies. For professionals-directors of communications, public relations specialists, experienced writers and editors of professional and technical publications - this book will serve as a reference and guide reinforcing their intuitive understanding and appreciation of the art of editing.

Editing: The Design of Rhetoric

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Routledge

Awarded 1990 Best Book! Excellence in Scientific and Technical Writing. Sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English. This book is intended to familiarize readers with the theoretical basis and practical applications of the editing process. This involves the examination of the rhetorical canons--invention, arrangement, style, delivery; and the corresponding rhetorical objectives of editing--accuracy, clarity, propriety, and artistry. We envision a diverse audience for this book. For aspiring editors, we offer an introduction to rhetorical principles as a vehicle for developing a repertoire of theoretically sound and effective strategies. For professionals--directors of communications, public relations specialists, experienced writers and editors of professional and technical publications--this book will serve as a reference and guide reinforcing their intuitive understanding and appreciation of the art of editing. Editing- The Design of Rhetoric covers the traditional topics associated with editing (e.g., style guidelines, editing symbols, typography). In addition, we introduce a variety of new ways of approaching both routine and special editorial designs. The key objectives of this book are: to show that editing is not merely a mechanical procedure, but a complex and creative process; to demonstrate that the editor's job is to mediate the writer-reader relationship, and therefore; requires a sensitivity to both the writer's aims and the reader's needs; to emphasize the importance of the rhetorical canons in the editing process by briefly explaining; their historical evolution and current implications; to exemplify the application of rhetorical theory in the editing of three major categories of texts--technical, news, and promotional publications; to provide a series of heuristics for analyzing the verbal and visual characteristics of a text; and to identify the process of editing as applicable to writers and readers in all disciplines and to the texts of all disciplines.

Editing: The Design of Rhetoric (Baywood's Technical Communications Series)

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Baywood Publishing Company, Inc.

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