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"John Lannon's Technical Communication has helped more than 1.2 million students become better technical writers, equipping them with the skills and knowledge they need to be successful in a wide range of professions. Lannon is unwavering in his effort to keep abreast of current issues and trends in the workplace - and to weave their Implications into the Instruction this book provides. What you'll find here is a realistic portrayal of today's workplace...
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This book helps you make the leap from writing in college to writing in workplace settings. Full of clear, practical advice and real-world examples from a range of sources, this text helps you develop the kinds of writing processes and documents that you'll encounter on the job. -- Provided by publisher.
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"The field of technical communication is rapidly expanding in both the academic world and the private sector, yet a problematic divide remains between theory and practice. Here Stuart A. Selber and Johndan Johnson-Eilola, both respected scholars and teachers of technical communication, effectively bridge that gap. Solving Problems in Technical Communication collects the latest research and theory in the field and applies it to real-world problems...
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Professional communications are the "information product" of all organizations and businesses. Based on that premise, this book offers communications strategies that will benefit any organization that disseminates technical information in-house and/or to customers. It provides easy-to-understand and apply guidelines for designing and writing effective technical documents, as well as other related communications. The book has been updated to encompass...
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"Visualizing Technical Information: A Cultural Critique demonstrates the ways in which the leading technical visuals of information design - graphs, charts, diagrams, tables, illustrations, and information visualization - are designed and read.
Using genre theory as an analytical tool, the author makes the argument that problems with these visual forms are not necessarily the result of a designer's poor decisions or a reader's poor decisions or a...
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"Telling people about research is just as important as doing it. But many researchers, who, in all other respects, are competent scientists, are afraid of writing. They are wary of the unwritten rules, the unspoken dogma and the inexplicably complex style, all of which seem to pervade conventional thinking about scientific writing. This book has been written to expose these phantoms as largely smoke and mirrors, and replace them with principles that...
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"Practising Science Communication in the Information Age is a collection of newly commissioned chapters by leading scholars and practitioners of science communication. It considers how scientists communicate with each other as part of their professional practice, critically evaluating how this forms the basis of the documenting of scientific knowledge, and investigating how open access publication and open review are influencing current practices....
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The Busy Librarian's Guide to Information Literacy in Science and Engineering provides a practical guide for librarians responsible for science, engineering, and/or technology information literacy instruction to understand and apply the Information Literacy Standards for Science and Engineering/Technology into curriculum design and ongoing instruction. The book highlights unique needs and challenges for information literacy instruction within science/engineering...
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Veteran science journalist Seth Shulman takes us on a shocking journey through today's battles for control over the intangible new assets - genes, software, databases, and scientific information - that make up the lifeblood of the new economy. We meet doctors who sue colleagues for using new medical procedures they claim to own. We find university researchers thrown in jail for "stealing" their own ideas; software firms holding the entire industry...
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"In this book Michael Ryan explains the issues, politics, and diplomacy of balancing intellectual property rights with the public's right of access. He discusses the major negotiations to forge international policy in the 1980s and 1990s, including the bilateral U.S. intellectual property negotiations with China and other developing countries, the multilateral negotiations conducted at GATT, and the 1996 copyright treaties negotiated at the World...
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