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ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE,

AND TECHNOLOGY

FORTHCOMING

How to Write and Present

Technical Information

Forth Edition | CHARLES H. SIDES

Technology is now a dominant force in
professional communications. How does
one maximize its impact?

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. The popular work
GREENWOOD provides easy-to-understand and apply guidelines for designing and writing
September 2017, 252pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 effective technical documents, as well as other related communications. What
Hardcover: 978-1-4408-5505-4 makes this new edition especially valuable is that it maintains the quality
$61.00, £47.00, €56.00 of information that distinguished the previous editions, but is now updated
eBook: 978-1-4408-5506-1
Paperback: 978-1-4408-5507-8 to encompass current technology and trends, including today’s prevalent
$37.00, £29.00, €34.00 communication tools such as social media.
The book begins by looking at skills common to all technical writing and
offering general advice on designing and writing reports. Next is a discussion
S AMPLE T OPICS
of specific types of reports along with common problems and issues writers
• Analysis Reports
face. Finally, the work overviews other forms of communications such as
• Audience Analysis
professional presentations. The updated material also considers the growing
• Editing importance of interviews and focus groups as information-gathering tools,
• Marketing the influence of visual rhetoric, and the use of technologies such as Skype and
Communications webinars.
• Professional
Presentations FEATURES
• Proposals • Maintains the quality of information that has made this text a longtime
• Public Relations favorite while featuring significant updates to encompass current
technology
• Report Design
• Provides readers with clear guidelines for designing and writing a wide
• Rhetorical Strategies
range of professional documents and associated communications
• Writing for Social • Offers effective strategies for solving communications problems
Media
• Includes primary source documents that illustrate the advice given

CHARLES H. SIDES, PhD, is professor of
communication and director of internships for
the Department of Communications Media at
Fitchburg State University.

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