Technical Writing and Professional Communication: For Nonnative Speakers of English

I Introduction 1 Why Study Technical and Professional Communication? II General Strategies for the Writing Process 2 Generating Ideas 3 Identifying Audiences and Purposes 4 Constructing Arguments 5 Stating Problems 6 Drafting and Word Processing 7 Testing and Revising III Visual Elements 8 Selecting Visual Elements 9 Creating Visual Elements IV Specific Applications 10 Resumes and Job Letters 11 The Business Letters 12 Basic Features of Reports 13 Memos, Short Informal Reports, and Progress Reports 14 Feasibility Reports 15 Long Reports 16 Proposals 17 Instructions, Procedures, and Computer Documentation 18 Theses and Journal Articles 19 Oral Presentations 20 Meetings and Negotiation V Readability 21 Readability: General Principles 22 Writing Paragraphs 23 Using Parallelism 24 Maintaining Focus 25 Creating Flow between Sentences 26 Editing for Emphasis 27 Choosing Appropriate Words 28 Proofreading VI Review of the Grammar, Style, and Vocabulary Building 29 Indefinite Articles 30 The Definite Article 31 Verbs 32 Modal Verbs 33 Relative Clauses 34 Connectives 35 Noun Compounds 36 Vocabulary Building 37 Informal Conversational Expressions 38 Pronunciation Appendixes: Punctuation, Grammar, and StyleLeslie A. Olsen is the author of 'Technical Writing and Professional Communication: For Nonnative Speakers of English', published 1991 under ISBN 9780070308251 and ISBN 007030825X.