Technical Writing and Professional Communication Book

1 Why Study Technical and Professional Communication?2 Generating Ideas 3 Identifying Audiences and Purposes 4 Constructing Arguments 5 Stating Problems 6 Drafting and Word Processing 7 Testing and Revising 8 Selecting Visual Elements 9 Creating Visual Elements 10 Resumes and Job Letters 11 The Business Letter 12 Basic Features of Reports 13 Memos, Short Informal Reports, and Progress Reports 14 Feasibility Reports 15 Long Reports 16 Proposals 17 Instructions, Procedures, and Computer Documentation 18 Theses and Journal Articles 19 Oral Presentations 20 Meetings and Negotiation 21 Readability: General Principles 22 Writing Paragraphs 23 Using Parallelism 24 Maintaining Focus