Price and Order Information To order 10 copies at a special discount, use Order No. 80236S 10 copies for $199 or $19.90 per copy 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 . his concise, no-nonsense guide provides alphabetically ordered and cross-referenced topics, which make it easy to find answers to questions related to writing a technical report or thesis. Topics include the format and content of reports and theses; copyright and plagiarism; print and Internet reference citation; abbreviations; units and conversion factors; significant figures; mathematical notation and equations; writing styles and conventions; frequently confused words; grammatical errors and punctuation.It also provides commonsense advice on issues such as how to get started and how to keep your reader's attention.
Trevor M. Young (BEng, MSc, PhD): aeronautical engineer, university lecturer and pilot.
Dr Young teaches aircraft design and flight mechanics at the University of Limerick. He has published over 50 scientific papers and four book chapters. "Technical Writing A-Z", which is available in two editions -- US Edition and British English Edition -- grew out of his frustration with seeing the some mistakes repeated each year in student reports/theses. The book has been adopted as a prime text for teaching report/thesis writing at several universities.
