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Effective Technical Writing in the Information Age
Whether planning a paper, running a grammar check, completing a report, composing an email, puzzling over a usage or grammar issue, or writing a resume or online portfolio, you are bound to find the material and examples you need in Style for Students Online.
- Tác giả
- Joe Schall
- Nhà xuất bản
- Pennsylvania State University
- Nguồn
- LibreTexts
- Giấy phép
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Ngôn ngữ
- EN
- Danh mục
- Tiếng Anh
Mục lục· 165 mục
- 01: Improving Your Style
- 1.01: Introduction
- 1.02: A Strategy for Revising- Concision Precision Revision
- 1.03: Writing Paragraphs That Flow
- 1.04: Topic Sentences
- 1.05: Subject Very Agreement
- 1.06: Special Cases in Subject Verb Agreement
- 1.07: Tricky Singular Plural Pairs
- 1.08: Verb Tense
- 1.09: Using Active Verbs
- 1.10: Describing Phenomena with Active Verbs
- 1.11: The Passive versus Active Voice Dilemma
- 1.12: When To Use The Active Voice
- 1.13: When To Use The Passive Voice
- 1.14: 1-14- Transition Words
- 1.15: Special Stylistic Issues in Technical Writing
- 02: Punctuation Mechanics Capitalization and Spelling
- 2.01: Introduction
- 2.02: Hyphens
- 2.03: Apostrophes
- 2.04: Quotation Marks
- 2.05: Semicolons Colons and Dashes
- 2.06: Commas
- 2.07: The Period
- 2.08: Parentheses
- 2.09: Abbreviations and Acronyms
- 2.10: Expressing Temperatures and Numbers
- 2.11: Capitalization
- 2.12: Spelling
- 2.13: Everyday Words that are Commonly Misspelled
- 2.14: Words that are Commonly Misspelled in Technical Writing
- 03: Commonly Misused Terms and Phrases
- 3.01: Introduction
- 3.02: Absorb Adsorb
- 3.03: Accept Except
- 3.04: Accurate Precise
- 3.05: Affect Effect
- 3.06: Alot Allot
- 3.07: Alright All right
- 3.08: Alternate Alternative
- 3.09: Among Between
- 3.10: Amount of Number of
- 3.11: And Or
- 3.12: Area Region Section
- 3.13: As Like
- 3.14: Aspect
- 3.15: Assure Ensure Insure
- 3.16: Between . . . and From . . . to
- 3.17: Bi Semi
- 3.18: Can Could
- 3.19: Cite Site Sight
- 3.20: Coarse Course
- 3.21: Compared to Compared with
- 3.22: Complement Compliment
- 3.23: Compose Constitute Include
- 3.24: Comprise
- 3.25: Continual Continuous
- 3.26: Different than Different from
- 3.27: Due to the fact that The reason is because
- 3.28: e.g. i.e. et al.
- 3.29: etc.
- 3.30: Fact Factor
- 3.31: Farther Further
- 3.32: Few Less
- 3.33: Former Latter
- 3.34: Imply Infer
- 3.35: In terms of
- 3.36: Irregardless
- 3.37: It's Its
- 3.38: Lay Lie
- 3.39: Lead Led
- 3.40: May Might
- 3.41: One You
- 3.42: Per
- 3.43: Percent Percentage
- 3.44: Perfect Unique
- 3.45: Perspective Prospective
- 3.46: Pretty Quite Rather Very
- 3.47: Principal Principle
- 3.48: Precede Proceed Subsequent
- 3.49: Respective Respectively
- 3.50: That Which
- 3.51: Try and Try to
- 3.52: Will Would
- 04: Equations Figures and Tables
- 4.01: Introduction
- 4.02: Style for Equations
- 4.03: Equations as Sentence Parts
- 4.04: Sample Equation
- 4.05: Writing Equations with LaTeX
- 4.06: Figures and Tables Overview
- 4.07: Using Statistics in Figures and Tables
- 4.08: Fundamentals for Figures
- 4.09: Fundamentals for Tables
- 4.10: Aesthetics for Figures and Tables
- 4.11: Textual References to Figures and Tables
- 4.12: Captions for Figures and Tables
- 4.13: Sample Figures
- 4.14: Sample Tables
- 4.15: Discipline-Specific Advice on Equations Figures and Tables
- 05: Using Sources
- 5.01: Introduction
- 5.02: How Plagiarism Occurs
- 5.03: Assessing Source Quality
- 5.04: Why We Cite Sources
- 5.05: When Sources Must Be Cited (Checklist)
- 5.06: Integrating Source Material
- 5.07: Blending Source Material with Your Own Work
- 5.08: Anatomy of a Well-Cited Paragraph
- 5.09: Best Practices in the Modern Library
- 5.10: Some Recommended Print Resources
- 5.11: Author-Year System- In-Text Citation
- 5.12: Number System- In-Text Citation
- 5.13: Author-Year System- References Pages
- 5.14: Sample Author-Year System References Page
- 5.15: Number System- References Pages
- 5.16: FAQs about Citing Sources
- 06: Writing Documents for Classes
- 6.01: Introduction
- 6.02: Outlines
- 6.03: Sample Outline
- 6.04: Proposals
- 6.05: Sample Proposal
- 6.06: Annotated Bibliographies
- 6.07: Sample Annotated Bibliography
- 6.08: Descriptive Abstracts
- 6.09: Sample Descriptive Abstract
- 6.10: Progress Reports
- 6.11: Sample Progress Report
- 6.12: Memos
- 6.13: Essays and Term Papers
- 6.14: Technical Reports
- 6.15: Internship and Co-op Reports
- 07: Presenting Yourself in Person and Online
- 7.01: Introduction
- 7.02: E-Mail Etiquette
- 7.03: Effective Grammar Checking
- 7.04: Oral Presentation and Powerpoint
- 7.05: Online Portfolios
- 7.06: Tips for Interviews
- 08: Resumes
- 8.01: Introduction
- 8.02: Writing the Conventional Resume
- 8.03: Quality Checking Your Resume
- 8.04: Common Action Words Used to Describe Job Experience
- 8.05: Sample Conventional Resumes
- 8.06: More Advanced More Daring Resumes
- 8.07: Sample Advanced More Daring Resumes
- 8.08: The Graduate Student and Post-Graduate Resume
- 8.09: Sample Graduate Student and Post-Graduate Resumes
- 8.10: Computer Scanning of Resumes
- 8.11: Sample Computer Scannable Resume
- 09: Professional Letters
- 9.01: Introduction
- 9.02: Writing Cover Letters
- 9.03: Sample Cover Letters
- 9.04: Professional Letters
- 9.05: Sample Professional Letters
- 10: Journal Articles about Writing
- 10.01: Introduction
- 10.02: Comments From the Geological Society of America Bulletin Editors
- 10.03: Advice to Scientist Writers- Beware Old Fallacies
- 10.04: Precise Writing for a Precise Science
- 10.05: The Universal Recipe Or How To Get Your Manuscript Accepted By Persnickety Editors
- 10.06: The Science of Scientific Writing