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Title

Technical writing A-Z : a commonsense guide to engineering reports and theses / Trevor M. Young.

Author

Young, Trevor M.

Publication

New York, NY : ASME Press, ©2005.

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Details

Description

viii, 232 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"Not intended to be read from cover to cover, this book was designed instead to be a quick and useful reference for students, young engineers, and experienced professionals alike. It provides guidelines, advice, and technical information for preparing formal documents covering a range of report formats (e.g. assessment, laboratory, and progress reports). This guide provides alphabetically ordered and cross-referenced topics, which make it easy to find answers to questions about writing technical reports or theses."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Commonsense guide to engineering reports and theses

Subject

• Technical writing
• technical writing
• Engineering & Applied Sciences
• Technology - General

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Abbreviated terms -- Abbreviations (common) -- Abbreviations (of journals) -- Abstract -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms -- Aims -- Annex -- APA Manual -- Appendix -- Assessment report -- Assumptions and approximations -- Background -- Bad results -- Bibliography -- Capitalization -- CBE Manual -- Chapters and sections -- Characteristic numbers -- Charts -- Chemical elements, compounds and symbols -- Chicago Manual of Style -- Citing references (basic rules) -- Citing references (examples of author-date method) -- Citing references (examples of numeric method) -- Citing references located on the Internet -- Citing something second-hand -- Citing standards -- Concluding remarks -- Conclusions -- Confusables -- Contents -- Continuity -- Conversion factors -- Copyright -- Criticism of others -- Cross-referencing -- CSE Manual -- Data presentation -- Dedication -- Diagrams -- Dictionary -- Discussion -- Emphasis by typeface change -- Endnotes -- Engineering report -- Epigraph -- Equations -- Errata -- Et al. -- Excerpts (extracts) -- Executive summary -- Fair-use doctrine -- Figures -- Font -- Footnotes and endnotes -- Formal writing -- Format (of report) -- Format style -- Fowler's Modem English Usage -- Front cover -- Future work -- Getting started -- Gimmicks, clip art and emoticons (smileys) -- Glossary -- Grammar and style -- Graphs -- Greek alphabet
• Hand-drawn sketches -- Harvard system -- Headers and footers -- Headings -- Honesty -- Humor -- Hyphenation and word division -- Hypothesis -- Ibid. -- Incorrect word usage (confusables) -- Internet -- Internet reference citation -- Introduction -- Italicization -- Keywords -- Laboratory report -- Line spacing -- List of figures/tables -- Lists -- Literature review -- Logical conclusions -- Mathematical notation and equations -- Method -- MLA (Modem Language Association) -- Nomenclature -- Numbering system (for chapters and sections) -- Numbering system (for figures and tables) -- Numbers -- Objectives -- Op. cit. -- Page numbers (pagination) -- Paragraphs -- Paraphrasing -- Passive voice -- Photographs -- Plagiarism -- Preface -- Progress report -- Proofreading -- Punctuation -- Punctuation marks and special symbols/characters -- Quotations -- Reader -- Recommendations -- References (basic rules) -- References (examples of author-date method) -- References (examples of numeric method) -- References (non-archival) -- Repetition -- Results -- Revision control -- Roman numerals -- Scientific names (of animals and plants) -- Sections in a report -- Significant figures -- SI units -- Speculation -- Spelling -- Spreadsheets -- Statistical analysis -- Structure of reports and theses -- Style (format) -- Style manuals -- Style of writing (use of words) -- Summary -- Summary of results -- Table of contents -- Tables -- Technical dictionaries -- Tense of the verb -- Theory -- Title of report -- Title page -- Trade names and trademarks -- Turabian -- Types of technical and scientific documents -- Units -- Units (conversion factors) -- Units (foot-pound-second, CGS and miscellaneous) -- Units (SI) -- URL -- Zoology and biology terms

ISBN

• 0791802361
• 9780791802366

LCCN

2005041188

OCLC

• ocm58451880
• 58451880
• SCSB-9117756

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library