Technical writing : theory and practice / edited by Bertie E. Fearing and W. Keats Sparrow.

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Bibliographic Details
Contributors: Fearing, Bertie E., Sparrow, W. Keats (Wendall Keats), 1942-2009
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1989.
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Table of Contents:
  • Teaching technical writing : a retrospective appraisal / James W. Souther
  • What's practical about technical writing? / Carolyn R. Miller
  • Document development in industry / Roger A. Grice
  • Collaborative writing in industry / Mary Beth Debs
  • Composing processes for technical discourse / Jack Selzer
  • Breaking with a tradition : new directions in audience analysis / Jo Allen
  • Writing and testing instructions for usability / Janice C. Redish, David A. Schell
  • Nonrhetorical elements of layout and design / Mary M. Lay
  • Parallelism in scientific and technical writing / Isabelle Kramer Thompson
  • Beyond impressionism : evaluating causal connections / Michael P. Jordan
  • The prescriptive versus the heuristic approach in teaching technical communication / John H. Mitchell, Marion K. Smith
  • A comparative analysis of teacher resources for an advanced technical writing course / Thomas L. Warren
  • (Cont'd) The high-tech workplace : implications for technical communication instruction / Elizabeth Tebeaux.