The engineering communication manual / Richard House, Richard Layton, Jessica Livingston, Sean Moseley.

Author: House, Richard (English professor) author.

ImprintNew York : Oxford University Press, [2017]

Descriptionxxvi, 470 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Note:Contexts -- Planning your communication -- Assessing the rhetorical situation -- Displaying evidence and reasoning (logos) -- Conveying credibility (ethos) -- Accommodating audience needs, values, and priorities (pathos) -- Writing within genres -- Understanding your audience -- Analyzing stakeholder audiences -- Listening to stakeholders -- Techniques for listening -- Meeting your ethical obligations -- Ethics in engineering -- The engineer's rights and duties -- Analyzing consequences of action and ethical principles -- Types of unethical communication -- Accommodating global and cultural differences -- Recognizing cultural values and assumptions -- Emphasis on the individual or the group -- Preference for equality or hierarchy -- Experiences of time -- Role of the writer or the reader in conveying meaning -- Considerations for face-to-face communication -- Designing documents for users -- Professional audiences as users -- Chunking: dividing content into manageable units -- Relationships among content: proximity, alignment, repetition, contrast -- Setting type for ease of reading -- Using color Audiences -- Engineers -- Who they are and how they think: credible arguments required -- Why you communicate with your engineering peers -- How to communicate with your engineering peers -- Technicians and technical staff -- Who they are and how they think: implementers -- Why you communicate with technicians -- How you communicate with technicians -- Executives -- Who they are and how they think: authorizers -- Why you communicate with executives -- How you communicate with executives -- Clients -- Who they are and how they think: it's in the contract -- Why you communicate with clients -- How you communicate with clients -- The public and the public sector -- Who they are and how they think: health and safety are first priority -- Why you communicate with the public -- How you communicate with the public -- Genres -- Reporting in a research community -- Writing for a technical audience -- Elements of the IMRaD format -- Experimental reports -- Reports that advance theory -- Literature reviews -- Reporting in an industrial organization -- Writing for decision-making audiences in industry -- Elements of the "answers-first" format -- Progress and status reports -- Design reports -- Feasibility studies -- Corresponding Maintaining a professional tone in correspondence Letters Memos Email Phone calls Social media 14 Proposing Common elements of proposing External proposals and responding to requests for proposals -- Internal proposals -- Instructing -- Principles of writing instructions -- Usability testing -- Applying for a job -- Targeting the audience -- Resumes -- Application letters -- Academia: the curriculum vitae and statement of purpose -- Processes -- Researching -- Consulting with experts -- Finding scholarly sources -- Using patents to review prior art -- Integrating sources: paraphrase and direct quotation -- Citing sources -- Drafting -- Planning the argument -- The sequence of drafts -- Revising -- From revising to editing to proofreading -- Revising content and argument based on feedback from experts and peers -- Revising structure and organization -- Revising and editing for clarity -- Collaborating -- Avoiding the common pitfall of collaboration -- Planning a document as a team -- Drafting a document as a team -- Integrating and unifying a document -- Meeting -- The first team meeting: roles, responsibilities, charters -- Why meet? (agendas) -- What happened? (minutes) -- Optimizing virtual meetings -- Components -- Headings -- Communicating the argument to the hurried reader -- Unifying style and voice -- Paragraphs -- Focusing paragraphs on a single idea -- Moving coherently from one sentence to the next -- Sentences -- Solidifying the sentence core -- Coordinating and subordinating ideas -- Avoiding sentence fragments, fused sentences, and comma splices -- Increasing conciseness while maintaining clarity -- Words -- Achieving precision without needless jargon -- Selecting precise verbs -- Using pronouns precisely -- Managing emotive language -- Summaries -- Executive summaries -- Abstracts -- Submitting an abstract as a proposal -- Front and back matter -- Front matter: title pages, tables of contents, and lists of figures -- Back matter: notes, appendices, and bibliography -- Visuals -- Graphs -- Choosing the best graph for the task -- Shared conventions of graphs -- Pie charts, bar graphs, and dot plots -- Scatterplots and line graphs -- Box-and-whisker plots and histograms -- Fine-tuning your graphs: Enhancing visual clarity with text -- Illustrations -- Choosing the best illustration for the task -- The range of illustrations, from pictorial to schematic -- Commonly encountered types of illustrations -- Fine-tuning your illustration -- Tables, equations, and code -- Designing tables -- Writing mathematics -- Writing chemistry -- Writing computer code -- Media -- Print pages -- Creating a page layout -- Managing the appearance of paragraphs -- Selecting typefaces -- Talks -- Overcoming stage fright and connecting with listeners -- Analyzing audience & setting -- Identifying the genre, purpose, and desired outcome -- Rehearsing and preparing the talk -- Presentation slides -- Recognizing the limitations of slideware -- Designing slides using assertion-evidence style -- Using Prezi to illustrate spatial relationships -- Adapting slide designs for other purposes -- Posters -- Understanding the audience for a poster presentation -- Delivering the poster talk -- Placing major elements of the poster -- Applying design principles to the poster.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-457) and index.

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