Applied Writing for Technicians

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 17 Cases: Examples and Assignments Appendix A Usage Tips Appendix B Proofreaders' MarksJungk, Dale is the author of 'Applied Writing for Technicians' with ISBN 9780078283574 and ISBN 0078283574.