Mayfield Handbook of Technical and Scientific Writing

Name: Mayfield Handbook of Technical and Scientific Writing
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ISBN: 9781559346474

ISBN-10: 1559346477

ISBN-13: 9781559346474

Edition: 1997

Authors: Leslie C. Perelman, Edward Barrett, James Paradis

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List price: $70.63
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Publication date: 1/17/1997
Binding: Comb Bound
Pages: 456
Size: 6.25" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

David Catrow is an editorial cartoonist and the illustrator of more than seventy books for children, including the New York Times bestseller I Ain't Gonna Paint No More! and I Like Myself!, both written by Karen Beaumont, Dozens of Cousins by Shutta Crum, Plantzilla by Jerdine Nolen, and Rotten Teeth by Laura Simms. He lives in Ohio. Visit his website at www.catrow.com .

Edward Barrett is Senior Lecturer in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT.

James Paradis is Professor and Head of the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.




Planning And Producing Documents


Characteristics of effective technical communication


Document purpose


Problem statement


Audience


Organization


Forecasting


Drafting a technical document


Revising for organization


Revising for content


Editing for grammar and style


Reviewing a document


Collaborative writing


Legal and ethical issues


Document design


Document checklist



Document Types


Memoranda


Meeting documents Literature review


Reports


Letters


Acceptance letters


Proposals


Press releases


Task oriented


Thesis


Oral reports


Electronic documents


Resumes


Notes and notebooks



Elements Of Technical Documents


Sections and subsections


Headings and subheadings


Front matter


Body


Back matter



Graphs And Figures


Reasons for using graphics


Common graphics


General guidelines for graphics



Paragraphs


Paragraph unity


Paragraph development



Sentences


Avoiding stacked modifiers


Avoiding wordiness


Overloaded sentences


Sentence fragments


Comma splice


Fused sentences


Run-on sentences


Agreement


Lack of parallelism


Choppy sentences


Misplaced modifiers


Dangling modifiers


Double negatives


Faulty comparisons


Inappropriate shifts


Sequence of tenses



Words


Abstract and general language


Vague language


Ornate language


Technical terms


Biased language



Punctuation


Periods


Commas


Colon


Semicolon


Question marks


Exclamation points


Apostrophe


Quotation marks


Hyphens


Dashes


Parentheses


Brackets



Mechanics


Capitalization


Italics


Abbreviations


Acronyms


Numbers


Enumerating


Symbols


Equations


Spelling



Documentation


General principles


Using and citing sources and avoiding plagiarism


Specific styles-sample references


American Psychological Association


Chicago Manual of Style


Council of Biology Editors Style


Modern Languages Association


Committee on Engineering Society Editors



Parts Of Speech


Nouns


Pronouns


Verbs


Adjectives


Participial adjectives


Adverbs


Prepositions


Conjunctions


Articles



Parts Of Sentences


Subjects


Predicates


Objects


Modifiers


Phrases


Clauses


Dependent clauses



Sentence Types And Word Order


Sentence types


Basic clause types


Word order


Ordering of phrases and clauses



Usage Glossary (Chapter 14 is an alphabetically organized reference handbook of grammatical rules, conventions, and other important topics for writers.)



Writer's Resources


Style guides Dictionaries Informational resources Library card catalogues


Index