Engineering Communication: From Principles to Practice

By Robert Irish and Peter Eliot Weiss

Book Overview

Designed as a core text for writing and communication courses geared specifically to engineers, Engineering Communication aims to help writers and speakers develop the skills to become superior technical communicators. By showing how theory can illuminate practice-how an understanding of basic rhetorical concepts can help with everyday communication tasks-the text offers a practical approach for engineers who want to improve the way they plan, develop, revise, illustrate, and present technical information. The result is an innovative guide that will help both engineering students and professionals become superior writers and presenters by showing how successful communication really works. Features The book's unique approach is organized around 19 principles-strategies that can be adapted and applied practically to a variety of communication tasks. Numerous examples drawn from actual engineering documents-including the full text of an eight-page project report-are used to illustrate effective and ineffective communication. The fundamentals of sentence structure, clauses, adjectives and adverbs, conjunctions, verbs and verbals, punctuation, and fallacies are covered in a series of appendices. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195424883
• ISBN13: 9780195424881
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 349 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 8.9"