A Beginner's Guide to Technical Communication is designed to help the student learn how to think through, organize, write, and revise assignments for his or her Freshmen Engineering class, or for any other course that requires scientific or technical reports. All of the examples are patterned on actual witting done in first-year engineering classes.
This book has three parts: chapters to read before you write; chapters to read while you write; and chapters to read after you write .
I Before You Write
1 The Logical Structure of Technical Reports-Section by Section
2 Coherence in Longer Reports
II While You Write
3 Strategies: Ways to use Teamwork, Laboratory Notebooks, and Report Format to Help With the Writing Process
III After You Write
4 Editing for Style and Usage
5 Editing for Grammar and Punctuation