With this new edition, Science and Technical Writing confirms its position as the definitive style resource for thousands of established and aspiring technical writers. Editor Philip Rubens has fully revised and updated his popular 1992 edition, with full, authoritative coverage of the techniques and technologies that have revolutionized electronic communications over the past eight years.
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The book really shines when it tackles the specifics of science writing. The sections on scientific terms and symbols; technology terms; units of measurement; mathematical expressions; equations; and citations, notes, and references are invaluable for those who frequently deal with these issues.
–Bob Andrews,Technical Communication
–Bob Andrews,Technical Communication
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Philip Rubens is Professor of Technical Communications at East Carolina University.
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One of the four essential books for the technical writer,
This review is from: Science and Technical Writing: A Manual of Style, Second Edition (Routledge Study Guides) (Paperback)
This is the best style guide for technical writing I have ever found. It gives more every day practical information than any of the other technical writing books and gives that information in a highly usable format.My only complaint--my standard complaint about my reference books--is that the index is far less comprehensive than it ought to be. Given modern computer indexing capabilities, one would think authors and publishers could do a better job. However, with this is one of the four essential books: 1. Strunk and White, Elements of Style, 2. Prentice Hall, Words Into Type, 3. Garner, A Dictionary of Modern American Usage (for the British tech writer, Fowler's Modern English Usage) and 4. Ruebens, Science and Technical Writing. With these four, a technical writer can handle almost any situation that arises. There are other books covering special fields that can be added, but these four will always be the bedrock. If you are a professional technical writer or only an occasional one, you can't go wrong having this book handy on your desktop.
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I encourage you to view the excerpt of this book; it will help you, more than any customer review, to see if this book is what you expect or imagine. In the excerpt, I found that chapter 2 starts with a bulleted list of items, without any introduction, any motivation, any explanation, nor comment, exactly like a table of contents. Next, using the same style (bulleted list or table of contents), "develops" each item of the bulleted list. I feel that this type of book would not give much help to write anything. To buy this book is like buying a power point presentation.
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Before writing anything, describe an audience by Conducting an audience analysis (1.2), Identifying audience characteristics (1.5), Assessing audience objectives and needs (1.6), Creating an audience profile (1.10). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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- Technical Communication by Mary M. Lay in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Dictionary of Mathematics by McGraw-Hill on page 179, and Back Matter
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations Hb by John Bartlett on page 224, and Back Matter
- The Levels of Edit by Robert Van Buren in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Computer-Based Instruction: Methods and Development by Stephen M. Alessi on page 214, and page 216
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- Writing in the Technical Fields: A Step-by-Step Guide for Engineers, Scientists, and Technicians by Mike Markel in Back Matter
- Online Education: Global Questions, Local Answers (Technical Communications Series) by Kelli Cargile Cook in Back Matter
- A Tutor's Guide: Helping Writers One to One, Second Edition by Ben Rafoth on page 72
- Business and Technical Communication: An Annotated Guide to Sources, Skills, and Samples (Bibliographies and Indexes in Mass Media and Communications) by Sandra E. Belanger on page 130
- Designing and Writing Online Documentation: Hypermedia for Self- Supporting Products, 2nd Edition by William Horton on page 283
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