Technical Communication: A Reader-Centered Approach is a process-orientated textbook in which the central advice
to students remains the smae: think constantly about your readers � whether you are preparing messages that will
be read on paper or viewed on a computer screen. As in earlier editions, every chapter, reference guide, and appendix
conveys specific, useful advice built upon hard-won insights that researchers have gained concerning the ways people
read in the workplace. By following the easy-to-remember guidelines in Technical Communication: A Reader-Centered
Approach, students can become confident, flexible, resourceful writers who know how to size up a situation and
then plan and draft a communication that will achieve an outcome that they and their readers both desrie.