"Applied Writing for Technicians is a text-workbook intended for use in writing courses for students in technology programs. Using the writing process, students studying various technical fields from electronics, to HVAC to medical office, to computer networking will develop their written communication skills while creating job-related correspondence. Coverage includes both internal and external job-related correspondence such as proposals for expenditure, and job bids as well as routine information requests and detailed billing reports. Standard conventions and formats for letters, memos, e-mail, and other reports are also covered. This versatile text is intended for use both in classes where students are studying various technical fields, and in classes where all of the students share a common major.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1 The Writing Process 1 Planning and Writing Messages
2 Choosing the Best Strategies
3 Revising Your Messages
4 Editing Your Messages
5 Communicating Bad News
6 Developing Your Style and Writing an Application Letter 2 The Sentence: Purpose and Design
7 The Sentence and the Parts of Speech
8 Sentence Structure
9 More About Nouns, Pronouns, and Verbs
10 Agreement, Verbs and Mood, and Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
11 Capitalization 3 Punctuation and the Mechanics of Writing
12 Commas, Semicolons, and Colons
13 Dashes, Hyphens, and Parentheses
14 Apostrophes, Periods, Questions Marks, and Exclamation Points 4 Letter Styles and Electronic Messages: Formats
and Guidelines
15 Letter Formats
16 E-Mail Messages 5 Additional Examples and Assignments