Technical Communication

by Chelsea Milbourne, Anne Regan, Morgan Livingston, and Sadie Johann

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This text explores the principles of technical communication. In addition to producing clear and easy-to-read documents, students will also examine the rhetorical dimensions of writing for technical environments. The class begins by analyzing the argumentative and stylistic conventions that govern technical communication. Through this critical analysis, students determine which conventions constitute the field’s “best practices” and will learn to incorporate these within their own compositions.

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Publisher
California Polytechnic State University
Subjects
Humanities, Composition
Licence
CC BY 4.0, as LibreTexts states it
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Further Acknowledgements
  6. Licensing
  7. 1: Introduction to Technical Communications
  8. Front Matter
  9. TitlePage
  10. InfoPage
  11. 1.1: What Is Technical Communication?
  12. 1.2: Who Is Your Audience and What Is the Rhetorical Context?
  13. Back Matter
  14. Index
  15. 2: Design Elements
  16. Front Matter
  17. TitlePage
  18. InfoPage
  19. 2.1: How Do You Effectively Design Documents?
  20. 2.2: How Do You Organize Information?
  21. 2.3: How Do You Display Information?
  22. 2.4: What Is Data Visualization?
  23. 2.5: How Do You Ethically Present Information?
  24. Back Matter
  25. Index
  26. 3: Genre Types
  27. Front Matter
  28. TitlePage
  29. InfoPage
  30. 3.1: What Is a Definition?
  31. 3.2: What Are the Conventions of E-Mail?
  32. 3.3: How Do You Write a Memo/Letter?
  33. 3.4: What Is a Proposal?
  34. 3.5: How Do You Write Instructions?
  35. 3.6: What Are the Conventions of Employment Materials?
  36. 3.7: How Do You Manage Your Online Identity?
  37. 3.8: What Is a Feasibility Study or Report?
  38. Back Matter
  39. Index
  40. 4: Project Management and Usability
  41. Front Matter
  42. TitlePage
  43. InfoPage
  44. 4.1: What Is User Experience?
  45. 4.2: What Is Project Management?
  46. 4.3: What Is User Testing?
  47. 4.4: Why and How Do You Use a Team Contract?
  48. 4.5: What Does Peer Review Look Like in Technical Communication?
  49. Back Matter
  50. Index
  51. 5: Research and Style Guides
  52. Front Matter
  53. TitlePage
  54. InfoPage
  55. 5.1: How Do You Trust Sources in Technical Communication?
  56. 5.2: What Are Some Misconceptions About Research?
  57. 5.3: How Do You Avoid Plagiarism?
  58. 5.4: What Are the Different Citations?
  59. Back Matter
  60. Index
  61. 6: Best Writing Practices
  62. Front Matter
  63. TitlePage
  64. InfoPage
  65. 6.1: How Do You Resolve Paragraph-Level Problems?
  66. 6.2: How Do You Resolve Sentence-Level Problems?
  67. 6.3: How Do You Resolve Word-Level Problems?
  68. Back Matter
  69. Index
  70. Back Matter
  71. Index
  72. Glossary
  73. Detailed Licensing
  74. Licensing and Attributions