The IEEE guide to writing in the engineering and technical fields / David Kmiec, Bernadette Longo.

By: Kmiec, David [author.]
Contributor(s): Longo, Bernadette [author.]
Language: English Series: IEEE PCS professional engineering communication series: Publisher: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley and Sons, Inc., [2017]Copyright date: ©2014Description: vii, 184 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781119070139; 1119070139Subject(s): Technical writing | Technical writing -- Handbooks, manuals, etcDDC classification: 808.06/66 LOC classification: T11 | .K63 2017
Contents:
A Note from the Series Editor, ix -- About the Authors, xi -- PART I A TECHNIQUE FOR WRITING LIKE A PROFESSIONAL 1 -- Introduction, 3 -- 1 The Social Situation of Text 7 -- The Social Contexts for Technical Writing, 8 -- Models of the Writing Environment, 9 -- Transmission Models, 10 -- Correctness Models, 11 -- Cognitive/Behavioral Models, 13 -- Social/Rhetorical Models, 14 -- This Guide's Approach, 16 -- The Rhetorical Situation: Purpose, 18 -- The Rhetorical Situation: Audience, 21 -- The Rhetorical Situation: Identity, 26 -- The Rhetorical Situation: Context, 28 -- The Pragmatic Situation: Community and Genre, 29 -- 2 Making Writing Decisions 33 -- Introduction, 34 -- Document Structure and Granularity, 35 -- Arranging Text at the Macro Level, 37 -- Sectioning and Heading Sections, 39 -- Aids for Navigating and Understanding Document Structure, 43 -- Creating Effects with Lexis and Syntax at the Micro Level, 45 -- Lexical Technique: Word Choice, Technical Terms, and Hedges and Boosters, 47 -- Syntactic Technique: Modification, Clausal Arrangement, and Discursive Cueing, 53 -- Intermediate Structural Units and Argumentative Movement, 68 -- Paragraph Cohesion and Paragraphs as Structural Units of a Document, 69 -- Structures Other than Paragraphs, 72 -- Citations and Other Intertextual Statements, 73 -- Implications for the Process of Writing, 75 -- Additional Reading, 77 -- PART 2 WRITING DOCUMENTS 79 -- Introduction 81 -- 3 Writing to Know: Informative Documents 85 -- Introduction, 86 -- The Purposes of Informative Documents, 86 -- Occasions for Preparing an Informative Document, 88 -- Audiences for an Informative Document, 88 -- Key Communication Strategies When Writing to Know, 90 -- Understanding What Constitutes Sufficient Evidence to Support a Claim, 90 -- Structuring Evidence in Your Document, 91 -- Establishing Expertise, 92 -- Questions for Analyzing Existing Documents, 93 -- Some Typical Informative Documents, 93 -- Reports, 93 -- Specifications, 104. 4 Writing to Enable: Instructions and Guidance 109 -- Introduction, 110 -- The Purposes of Enabling Documents, 110 -- Occasions for Preparing an Enabling Document, 112 -- Audiences for an Enabling Document, 112 -- Key Communication Strategies When Writing to Enable, 113 -- Anticipating a Document's Use Context, 113 -- Deciding How Much Background Is Warranted, 115 -- Testing the Document with Users, 116 -- Questions for Analyzing Existing Documents, 119 -- Characteristic Enabling Documents, 119 -- Manuals/Guides and Other Documents That Primarily Contain Instructions/Directions/Procedures, 119 -- Tutorials/Training Materials, 128 -- Policies, 130 -- 5 Writing to Convince: Persuasive Documents 133 -- Introduction, 134 -- The Purposes of Persuasive Documents, 134 -- Occasions for Preparing a Persuasive Document, 135 -- Audiences for the Persuasive Document, 136 -- Key Communication Strategies When Writing to Convince, 137 -- Designing Your Argument to Consider the Audience's Preexisting Beliefs, 137 -- Using the Terms and Values of the Audience to Articulate a Shared Goal, 140 -- Assuring Outcomes and Benefits without Seeming Unrealistic, 142 -- Questions for Analyzing Existing Documents, 143 -- Typical Examples of Persuasive Documents, 145 -- Proposals, 145 -- Business Plans, 149 -- 6 Correspondence: Medium of Workplace Collaboration 155 -- Introduction, 156 -- The Purposes of Correspondence, 157 -- Occasions for Preparing Correspondence, 158 -- Audiences for Correspondence, 158 -- Key Communication Strategies When Corresponding, 160 -- Consider Workplace Roles and Official and Unofficial Relationships and Responsibilities, 160 -- Evaluate Target Size and Frequency of Communication for a Relationship, 162 -- Pause to Reconsider Composition, Time, and Tone before Sending, 163 -- Characteristics of Correspondence Documents, 165 -- Letters, Memoranda, and E-mails, 165 -- Types of Correspondence, 167 -- Pre- and Post-meeting Documents: Announcements, Agendas, and Minutes, 170. Social Media, 171 -- Appendix: IEEE Style for References, 173 -- Index, 183.
Summary: This book introduces students and practicing engineers to all the components of writing in the workplace. It teaches readers how considerations of audience and purpose govern the structure of their documents within particular work settings. The IEEE Guide to Writing in the Engineering and Technical Fields is broken up into two sections: "Writing in Engineering Organizations" and "What Can You Do With Writing?" The first section helps readers approach their writing in a logical and persuasive way as well as analyze their purpose for writing. The second section demonstrates how to distinguish rhetorical situations and the generic forms to inform, train, persuade, and collaborate. The emergence of the global workplace has brought with it an increasingly important role for effective technical communication. Engineers more often need to work in cross-functional teams with people in different disciplines, in different countries, and in different parts of the world. Engineers must know how to communicate in a rapidly evolving global environment, as both practitioners of global English and developers of technical documents. Effective communication is critical in these settings. The IEEE Guide to Writing in the Engineering and Technical Fields: . Addresses the increasing demand for technical writing courses geared toward engineers. Allows readers to perfect their writing skills in order to present knowledge and ideas to clients, government representatives, and the general public. Covers topics most important to the working engineer The IEEE Guide to Writing in the Engineering and Technical Fields is a handbook developed specifically for engineers and engineering students. Using an argumentation framework, the handbook presents information about forms of engineering communication in a clear and accessible format. This book introduces both forms that are characteristic of the engineering workplace and principles of logic and rhetoric that underlie these forms. As a result, students and practicing engineers can improve their writing in any situation they encounter, because they can use these principles to analyze audience, purpose, tone, and form.
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About the Authors

David Kmiec, PhD is a Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of Undergraduate Technical Writing in the Department of Humanities at New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA. He also consults for government agencies and manufacturing and engineering services firms, helping them establish knowledge of management practices and effective workflows for digital and print publications.

Bernadette Longo, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA. She won the Emily K. Schlesinger Award for outstanding service to the IEEE Professional Communication Society in 2014.

A Note from the Series Editor, ix --
About the Authors, xi --
PART I A TECHNIQUE FOR WRITING LIKE A PROFESSIONAL 1 --
Introduction, 3 --
1 The Social Situation of Text 7 --
The Social Contexts for Technical Writing, 8 --
Models of the Writing Environment, 9 --
Transmission Models, 10 --
Correctness Models, 11 --
Cognitive/Behavioral Models, 13 --
Social/Rhetorical Models, 14 --
This Guide's Approach, 16 --
The Rhetorical Situation: Purpose, 18 --
The Rhetorical Situation: Audience, 21 --
The Rhetorical Situation: Identity, 26 --
The Rhetorical Situation: Context, 28 --
The Pragmatic Situation: Community and Genre, 29 --
2 Making Writing Decisions 33 --
Introduction, 34 --
Document Structure and Granularity, 35 --
Arranging Text at the Macro Level, 37 --
Sectioning and Heading Sections, 39 --
Aids for Navigating and Understanding Document Structure, 43 --
Creating Effects with Lexis and Syntax at the Micro Level, 45 --
Lexical Technique: Word Choice, Technical Terms, and Hedges and Boosters, 47 --
Syntactic Technique: Modification, Clausal Arrangement, and Discursive Cueing, 53 --
Intermediate Structural Units and Argumentative Movement, 68 --
Paragraph Cohesion and Paragraphs as Structural Units of a Document, 69 --
Structures Other than Paragraphs, 72 --
Citations and Other Intertextual Statements, 73 --
Implications for the Process of Writing, 75 --
Additional Reading, 77 --
PART 2 WRITING DOCUMENTS 79 --
Introduction 81 --
3 Writing to Know: Informative Documents 85 --
Introduction, 86 --
The Purposes of Informative Documents, 86 --
Occasions for Preparing an Informative Document, 88 --
Audiences for an Informative Document, 88 --
Key Communication Strategies When Writing to Know, 90 --
Understanding What Constitutes Sufficient Evidence to Support a Claim, 90 --
Structuring Evidence in Your Document, 91 --
Establishing Expertise, 92 --
Questions for Analyzing Existing Documents, 93 --
Some Typical Informative Documents, 93 --
Reports, 93 --
Specifications, 104. 4 Writing to Enable: Instructions and Guidance 109 --
Introduction, 110 --
The Purposes of Enabling Documents, 110 --
Occasions for Preparing an Enabling Document, 112 --
Audiences for an Enabling Document, 112 --
Key Communication Strategies When Writing to Enable, 113 --
Anticipating a Document's Use Context, 113 --
Deciding How Much Background Is Warranted, 115 --
Testing the Document with Users, 116 --
Questions for Analyzing Existing Documents, 119 --
Characteristic Enabling Documents, 119 --
Manuals/Guides and Other Documents That Primarily Contain Instructions/Directions/Procedures, 119 --
Tutorials/Training Materials, 128 --
Policies, 130 --
5 Writing to Convince: Persuasive Documents 133 --
Introduction, 134 --
The Purposes of Persuasive Documents, 134 --
Occasions for Preparing a Persuasive Document, 135 --
Audiences for the Persuasive Document, 136 --
Key Communication Strategies When Writing to Convince, 137 --
Designing Your Argument to Consider the Audience's Preexisting Beliefs, 137 --
Using the Terms and Values of the Audience to Articulate a Shared Goal, 140 --
Assuring Outcomes and Benefits without Seeming Unrealistic, 142 --
Questions for Analyzing Existing Documents, 143 --
Typical Examples of Persuasive Documents, 145 --
Proposals, 145 --
Business Plans, 149 --
6 Correspondence: Medium of Workplace Collaboration 155 --
Introduction, 156 --
The Purposes of Correspondence, 157 --
Occasions for Preparing Correspondence, 158 --
Audiences for Correspondence, 158 --
Key Communication Strategies When Corresponding, 160 --
Consider Workplace Roles and Official and Unofficial Relationships and Responsibilities, 160 --
Evaluate Target Size and Frequency of Communication for a Relationship, 162 --
Pause to Reconsider Composition, Time, and Tone before Sending, 163 --
Characteristics of Correspondence Documents, 165 --
Letters, Memoranda, and E-mails, 165 --
Types of Correspondence, 167 --
Pre- and Post-meeting Documents: Announcements, Agendas, and Minutes, 170. Social Media, 171 --
Appendix: IEEE Style for References, 173 --
Index, 183.

This book introduces students and practicing engineers to all the components of writing in the workplace. It teaches readers how considerations of audience and purpose govern the structure of their documents within particular work settings. The IEEE Guide to Writing in the Engineering and Technical Fields is broken up into two sections: "Writing in Engineering Organizations" and "What Can You Do With Writing?" The first section helps readers approach their writing in a logical and persuasive way as well as analyze their purpose for writing. The second section demonstrates how to distinguish rhetorical situations and the generic forms to inform, train, persuade, and collaborate. The emergence of the global workplace has brought with it an increasingly important role for effective technical communication. Engineers more often need to work in cross-functional teams with people in different disciplines, in different countries, and in different parts of the world. Engineers must know how to communicate in a rapidly evolving global environment, as both practitioners of global English and developers of technical documents. Effective communication is critical in these settings. The IEEE Guide to Writing in the Engineering and Technical Fields: . Addresses the increasing demand for technical writing courses geared toward engineers. Allows readers to perfect their writing skills in order to present knowledge and ideas to clients, government representatives, and the general public. Covers topics most important to the working engineer The IEEE Guide to Writing in the Engineering and Technical Fields is a handbook developed specifically for engineers and engineering students. Using an argumentation framework, the handbook presents information about forms of engineering communication in a clear and accessible format. This book introduces both forms that are characteristic of the engineering workplace and principles of logic and rhetoric that underlie these forms. As a result, students and practicing engineers can improve their writing in any situation they encounter, because they can use these principles to analyze audience, purpose, tone, and form.

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