Engineering Communication - Softcover

Stevenson, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471128171 ISBN 13: 9780471128175

Verlag: John Wiley & Sons, 2001

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This innovative text, Strategies for Engineering Communication, addresses fundamental issues of communication while also providing numerous strategies relating to the writing process, to persuading and informing, and to team writing, listening, speaking, style, form, and genre. Grounded in rhetorical theory, this text helps engineers develop flexible strategies for researching, inventing, drafting, and revising, and for meeting the challenges of the many audiences, purposes, and contexts encountered at school and at work.

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Susan Stevenson and Steve Whitmore are the authors of Strategies for Engineering Communication, published by Wiley.

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DEVELOP EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS FOR ANY ENGINEERING SITUATION

Effective communication is the key to success in engineering. Whether you're already working in the field or will soon be entering professional practice, you will need to explain how the systems and devices you design work, why they are needed, how to use them, and how to sell them.

Strategies for Engineering Communication will help you master the skills needed to successfully communicate in situations commonly encountered by engineers. Throughout the text, you'll find flexible strategies for researching, drafting, and revising documents and speeches, for working individualky and on teams, and for meeting the challenges of the many audiences, purposes, and contexts encountered at school and at work. Numerous exercises and examples provide opportunities for you to examine your own writing and the writing of other engineers.

This practical, hands-on text will help you:

• Master basic principles of effective communication.
• Develop communication skills that you can apply to a variety of writing situations, audiences, and media.
• Examine examples of real documents written by students and professional engineers.
• Understand the differences and similarities between successful spoken and written communication.
• Analyze your own writing.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0471128171
• ISBN 13: 9780471128175
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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