Engineering Report Writing

The author is a retired consulting mechanical engineer & professor of engineering. This book was written primarily for engineering students writing first reports. It is currently used in universities across the United States. Practicing engineers find it a concise guide for preparing reports & useful for publication or commentary in technical journals. Chapters include: What Report Writing Skills are Important to You; Purpose: Defining What Must Be Accomplished; Format; Figures & Tables; Photography; Engineering Report Style & Correct American English; Equations; The Master vs. Copy Concept--Reproduction Process; Writing the Report; The Spoken vs. the Written Word; Word Processing (computer graphics); Correction Code; Glossary; Sample Laboratory Reports. Quantity orders may be placed through university book stores, individual orders through United Western Press, 637 Valley Ave., Solana Beach, CA 92075, Tel: 619-481-1990, FAX: 619-481-0980.Brown, John F. is the author of 'Engineering Report Writing' with ISBN 9780961248857 and ISBN 0961248858.