For undergraduate-level courses in Technical Writing, Technical Communication and Professional Communication.
Technical Writing: A Practical Approach is a straight-forward textbook that emphasizes one simple principle: you learn to write best by doing as much writing as possible. The author's writing style is reader-friendly, and engages students by having them write early (Chapter 1). This text keeps students current on today's technical communication topics and research, which are integrated throughout the text.
Pfeiffer's Technical Writing: A Practical Approach, Fifth Edition, continues to set the standard with these important and practical features:
- Focus on both the writing process and the writing product
- A simple "ABC" pattern for organizing all types of documents
- A fictional company—McDuff, Inc.—that gives students a working world context for writing models and assignments
- Easy-to-use, numbered guidelines for writing documents
- Annotated writing models conveniently grouped at the ends of chapters
- "Communication Challenge" case studies at the end of all 15 chapters
- Alphabetized writing "Handbook" for quick reference
- Ethics assignments in every chapter
- Coverage of international communication
The fifth edition includes these NEW features: