This concise, affordable, and very practical guide to technical writing takes a hands-on approach: its aim is to move students from reading about technical writing to doing technical writing as quickly as possible.|A Strategic Guide to Technical Communication incorporates useful and specific strategies for writers, to enable them to create aesthetically appealing and usable technical documentation. These strategies have been developed and tested on a thousand students from a number of different disciplines over twelve years and three institutions. The second edition adds a chapter on business communication, reworks the discussion on technical style, and expands the information on visual communication and ethics into free-standing chapters. The text is accompanied by a passcode-protected website containing materials for instructors (PowerPoint lectures, lesson plans, sample student work, and helpful links).
Heather Graves is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alberta.
Roger Graves is Professor of English and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum at the University of Alberta.