Technical Communication - Softcover

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Comprehensive, user-friendly instruction in workplace writing, technical communication, business writing

Today’s employees are tasked with writing documents such as emails, memos, letters, and informal reports, as well as more complex forms of communications such as formal reports, proposals, web pages, and presentations. Technical Communication, Fourteenth Edition builds upon the authority of the previous editions byclearly guiding students to write documents persuasively, effectively, and with an eye towards technological innovations and global communications. It incorporates the interpersonal, logical, ethical, and cultural demands of these different forms of workplace communications and provides students with the necessary skills to navigate these nuisances. Building on research and writing skills and touching on the importance of ethics, the authors prepare students for technical writing in any field. 

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Biografía del autor

Lannon is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.

LAURA J. GURAK is Associate Professor and Director of the Internet Studies Center in the Rhetoric Department at the University of Minnesota, where she is also a Faculty Fellow in the Law School.