Table Of Contents
1. Engineering and Communication.
Writing Demonstrates My Competence as an Engineer. Writing and Speaking Can Help Me Discover What I Really Think. My Reader/Listener (My Audience) Is Always My Client. My Audiences Will Change and So Must My Writing and Speaking.
2. Discovering Ideas and Facts: You Are Leaving Home.
Framing Your Writing Project. Researching. Managing and Documenting Information.
3. Organizing Ideas and Facts: It's the Journey, Not the Destination.
Starting to Write. Drafting for Myself. Using Writing to Think Clearly.
4. Writing: It's about Control.
Readable Style. Constructing Powerful Paragraphs. Grammar and Sentence Structure: Diagnosing and Curing the Problems. Words: Picky, Picky. Punctuation: Why Should I Care?
5. Displaying: Are Pictures Always Worth a Thousand Words?
Figures and Tables: Which is Which? How to Construct Figures and Tables. Integrating Text and Figures/Tables.
6. Revising: When Will I Ever Be Finished?
Highlighting Information. Asking for Peer Review. Revising for Others.
7. Speaking: Do I Really Have to Stand Up in Front of All Those People?
Planning the Content of a Presentation. Planning the Visuals. Planning the Delivery. Controlling Nervousness. Delivering the Goods.
8. Producing Engineering Documents: The Rubber Meets the Road.
Using Boiler Plate. Correspondence (Including e-mail). Reports. Proposals. Resumés. Technical Instructions. Executive Summaries. |