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Summary
Summary
This brief guide is ideal for science and engineering students and professionals to help them communicate technical information clearly, accurately, and effectively. The focus is on the most common communication forms, including laboratory reports, research articles, and oral presentations, and on common issues that arise in classroom and professional practice. This book will be especially useful to students in a first chemistry or physics laboratory course. Advanced courses will often use the same formatting as required for submission to technical journals or for technical report writing, which is the focus of this book. Good communication habits are appropriate in all forms of technical communication. This book will help the reader develop effective communication skills. It is also ideal as a reference on stylistic and grammar issues throughout a technical career. Unlike most texts, which concentrate on writing style, this book also treats oral presentations, graphing, and analysis of data.
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Van Aken (Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology) and Hosford (emer., Univ. of Michigan) are highly experienced and have excellent advice to share in this brief guide aimed at students in a chemistry or physics lab course. The work is clearly structured into seven chapters covering technical writing, oral presentations, statistical analysis of data, and resume writing; however, the structure within each chapter is less obvious. Each chapter is a compendium of suggestions from the authors with varying degrees of emphases; e.g., the subsection on graphing is 18 pages long while the section on tables is only about a page long. The examples are appropriate and effective. Six appendixes (24 pages total) cover topics in punctuation, systems of units, the Greek alphabet, and functions. One potentially interesting appendix, "Common Errors in Writing," is unfortunately only two pages long, and it ignores the vast majority of errors that writers make. The guide should be useful for the intended audience of students in chemistry or physics labs. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates. M. S. Roden emeritus, California State University, Los Angeles
Table of Contents
| 1 Elements of technical writing |
| 2 Technical papers |
| 3 Technical letters |
| 4 Oral presentations |
| 5 Presentation of technical data |
| 6 Statistical analysis of experimental data |
| 7 Resume writing |
| AI Common errors in writing |
| AII Punctuation |
| AIII Commonly confused words |
| AIV International system of prefixes and units |
| AV The Greek alphabet and typical uses |
| AVI Straight line plots for some mathematical functions |
