The Engineering Communication Manual 1st Edition by Richard House, Richard Layton, Jessica Livingston, Sean Moseley ISBN 0199339104 978-0199339105

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ISBN 10: 0199339104
ISBN 13: 978-0199339105
Author: Richard House, Richard Layton, Jessica Livingston, Sean Moseley 

The Engineering Communication Manual addresses authentic writing issues and communication tasks faced by engineers, such as collaborative writing, design of data graphics, and poster presentations. The text helps students to generate effective technical arguments and to think critically about how they present content.

The Engineering Communication Manual 1st Table of contents:

1. Planning your communication

1.1 Assessing the rhetorical situation

1.2 Displaying evidence and reasoning (logos)

1.3 Conveying credibility (ethos)

1.4 Accommodating audience needs, values, and priorities (pathos)

1.5 Writing within genres

Summary

2. Understanding your audience

2.1 Analyzing stakeholder audiences

2.2 Listening to stakeholders

2.3 Techniques for listening

Summary

3. Meeting your ethical obligations

3.1 Ethics in engineering

3.2 The engineer’s rights and duties

3.3 Analyzing consequences of actions and ethical principles

3.4 Types of unethical communication

Summary

4. Accommodating global and cultural differences

4.1 Recognizing cultural values and assumptions

4.2 Emphasis on the individual or the group

4.3 Preference for equality or hierarchy

4.4 Experiences of time

4.5 Role of the writer or the reader in conveying meaning

4.6 Considerations for face-to-face communication

Summary

5. Designing documents for users

5.1 Professional audiences as users

5.2 Chunking: Dividing content into manageable units

5.3 Relationships among content: Proximity, alignment, repetition, contrast

5.4 Setting type for ease of reading

5.5 Using color

Summary

Audiences

6. Engineers

6.1 Who they are and how they think: Credible arguments required

6.2 Why you communicate with your engineering peers

6.3 How you communicate with your engineering peers

Summary

7. Technicians and technical staff

7.1 Who they are and how they think: Implementers

7.2 Why you communicate with technicians

7.3 How you communicate with technicians

Summary

8. Executives

8.1 Who they are and how they think: Authorizers

8.2 Why you communicate with executives

8.3 How you communicate with executives

Summary

9. Clients

9.1 Who they are and how they think: It’s in the contract

9.2 Why you communicate with clients

9.3 How you communicate with clients

Summary

10. The public and the public sector

10.1 Who they are and how they think: Health and safety are first priority

10.2 Why you communicate with the public

10.3 How you communicate with the public

Summary

Genres

11. Reporting in a research community

11.1 Writing for a technical audience

11.2 Elements of the IMRaD format

11.3 Experimental reports

11.4 Reports that advance theory

11.5 Literature reviews

Summary

12. Reporting in an industrial organization

12.1 Writing for decision-making audiences in industry

12.2 Elements of the Answers First format

12.3 Progress and status reports

12.4 Design reports

12.5 Feasibility studies

Summary

13. Corresponding

13.1 Maintaining a professional tone in correspondence

13.2 Letters

13.3 Memos

13.4 Email

13.5 Phone calls

13.6 Social media

Summary

14. Proposing

14.1 Common elements of proposing

14.2 External proposals and responding to requests for proposals

14.3 Internal proposals

Summary

15. Instructing

15.1 Principles of writing instructions

15.2 Usability testing

Summary

16. Applying for a job

16.1 Targeting the audience

16.2 Résumés

16.3 Application letters

16.4 Academia: The curriculum vitae and statement of purpose

Summary

Processes

17. Researching

17.1 Consulting with experts

17.2 Finding scholarly sources

17.3 Using patents to review prior art

17.4 Integrating sources: Paraphrase and direct quotation

17.5 Citing sources

Summary

18. Drafting

18.1 Planning the argument

18.2 The sequence of drafts

Summary

19. Revising

19.1 From revising to editing to proofreading

19.2 Revising content and argument based on feedback from experts and peers

19.3 Revising structure and organization

19.4 Revising and editing for clarity

Summary

20. Collaborating

20.1 Avoiding the “divide-and-conquer” approach

20.2 Planning a document as a team

20.3 Drafting a document as a team

20.4 Integrating and unifying a document

Summary

21. Meeting

21.1 The first team meeting: Roles, responsibilities, and charters

21.2 Why meet? (agendas)

21.3 What happened? (minutes)

21.4 Optimizing virtual meetings

Summary

Components

22. Headings

22.1 Communicating the argument to the hurried reader

22.2 Unifying style and voice

Summary

23. Paragraphs

23.1 Focusing paragraphs on a single idea

23.2 Moving coherently from one sentence to the next

Summary

24. Sentences

24.1 Solidifying the sentence core

24.2 Coordinating and subordinating ideas

24.3 Avoiding sentence fragments, fused sentences, and comma splices

24.4 Increasing conciseness while maintaining clarity

Summary

25. Words

25.1 Achieving precision without needless jargon

25.2 Selecting precise verbs

25.3 Using pronouns precisely

25.4 Managing emotive language

Summary

26. Summaries

26.1 Executive summaries

26.2 Abstracts

26.3 Submitting an abstract as a proposal

Summary

27. Front and back matter

27.1 Front matter: Title page, table of contents, and list of figures

27.2 Back matter: Notes, appendices, and bibliography

Summary

Visuals

28. Graphs

28.1 Choosing the best graph for the task

28.2 Shared conventions of graphs

28.3 Bar charts, pie charts, and dot plots

28.4 Histograms and box plots

28.5 Scatter plots and line plots

28.6 Fine-tuning your graphs: Enhancing visual clarity with text

Summary

29. Illustrations

29.1 Choosing the best illustration for the task

29.2 The range of illustrations, from pictorial to schematic

29.3 Commonly encountered types of illustrations

29.4 Fine-tuning your illustration

Summary

30. Tables, equations, and code

30.1 Designing tables

30.2 Writing mathematics

30.3 Writing chemistry

30.4 Writing computer code

Summary

Media

31. Print pages

31.1 Creating a page layout

31.2 Managing the appearance of paragraphs

31.3 Selecting typefaces

Summary

32. Talks

32.1 Overcoming stage fright and connecting with listeners

32.2 Analyzing audience and setting

32.3 Identifying the genre, purpose, and desired outcome

32.4 Rehearsing and preparing the talk

Summary

33. Presentation slides

33.1 Recognizing the limitations of slideware

33.2 Designing slides using assertion-evidence style

33.3 Using Prezi to illustrate spatial relationships

33.4 Adapting slide designs for other purposes

Summary

34. Posters

34.1 Understanding the audience for a poster presentation

34.2 Delivering the poster talk

34.3 Placing major elements of the poster

34.4 Applying design principles to the poster

Summary

Bibliography

Index

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