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Effective Technical Writing in the Information Age

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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.

CompositionHumanities
Author
Joe Schall
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University
Source
LibreTexts
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CC BY-NC-SA
Language
EN
Category
English
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Contents· 165 sections
  1. 01: Improving Your Style
  2. 1.01: Introduction
  3. 1.02: A Strategy for Revising- Concision Precision Revision
  4. 1.03: Writing Paragraphs That Flow
  5. 1.04: Topic Sentences
  6. 1.05: Subject Very Agreement
  7. 1.06: Special Cases in Subject Verb Agreement
  8. 1.07: Tricky Singular Plural Pairs
  9. 1.08: Verb Tense
  10. 1.09: Using Active Verbs
  11. 1.10: Describing Phenomena with Active Verbs
  12. 1.11: The Passive versus Active Voice Dilemma
  13. 1.12: When To Use The Active Voice
  14. 1.13: When To Use The Passive Voice
  15. 1.14: 1-14- Transition Words
  16. 1.15: Special Stylistic Issues in Technical Writing
  17. 02: Punctuation Mechanics Capitalization and Spelling
  18. 2.01: Introduction
  19. 2.02: Hyphens
  20. 2.03: Apostrophes
  21. 2.04: Quotation Marks
  22. 2.05: Semicolons Colons and Dashes
  23. 2.06: Commas
  24. 2.07: The Period
  25. 2.08: Parentheses
  26. 2.09: Abbreviations and Acronyms
  27. 2.10: Expressing Temperatures and Numbers
  28. 2.11: Capitalization
  29. 2.12: Spelling
  30. 2.13: Everyday Words that are Commonly Misspelled
  31. 2.14: Words that are Commonly Misspelled in Technical Writing
  32. 03: Commonly Misused Terms and Phrases
  33. 3.01: Introduction
  34. 3.02: Absorb Adsorb
  35. 3.03: Accept Except
  36. 3.04: Accurate Precise
  37. 3.05: Affect Effect
  38. 3.06: Alot Allot
  39. 3.07: Alright All right
  40. 3.08: Alternate Alternative
  41. 3.09: Among Between
  42. 3.10: Amount of Number of
  43. 3.11: And Or
  44. 3.12: Area Region Section
  45. 3.13: As Like
  46. 3.14: Aspect
  47. 3.15: Assure Ensure Insure
  48. 3.16: Between . . . and From . . . to
  49. 3.17: Bi Semi
  50. 3.18: Can Could
  51. 3.19: Cite Site Sight
  52. 3.20: Coarse Course
  53. 3.21: Compared to Compared with
  54. 3.22: Complement Compliment
  55. 3.23: Compose Constitute Include
  56. 3.24: Comprise
  57. 3.25: Continual Continuous
  58. 3.26: Different than Different from
  59. 3.27: Due to the fact that The reason is because
  60. 3.28: e.g. i.e. et al.
  61. 3.29: etc.
  62. 3.30: Fact Factor
  63. 3.31: Farther Further
  64. 3.32: Few Less
  65. 3.33: Former Latter
  66. 3.34: Imply Infer
  67. 3.35: In terms of
  68. 3.36: Irregardless
  69. 3.37: It's Its
  70. 3.38: Lay Lie
  71. 3.39: Lead Led
  72. 3.40: May Might
  73. 3.41: One You
  74. 3.42: Per
  75. 3.43: Percent Percentage
  76. 3.44: Perfect Unique
  77. 3.45: Perspective Prospective
  78. 3.46: Pretty Quite Rather Very
  79. 3.47: Principal Principle
  80. 3.48: Precede Proceed Subsequent
  81. 3.49: Respective Respectively
  82. 3.50: That Which
  83. 3.51: Try and Try to
  84. 3.52: Will Would
  85. 04: Equations Figures and Tables
  86. 4.01: Introduction
  87. 4.02: Style for Equations
  88. 4.03: Equations as Sentence Parts
  89. 4.04: Sample Equation
  90. 4.05: Writing Equations with LaTeX
  91. 4.06: Figures and Tables Overview
  92. 4.07: Using Statistics in Figures and Tables
  93. 4.08: Fundamentals for Figures
  94. 4.09: Fundamentals for Tables
  95. 4.10: Aesthetics for Figures and Tables
  96. 4.11: Textual References to Figures and Tables
  97. 4.12: Captions for Figures and Tables
  98. 4.13: Sample Figures
  99. 4.14: Sample Tables
  100. 4.15: Discipline-Specific Advice on Equations Figures and Tables
  101. 05: Using Sources
  102. 5.01: Introduction
  103. 5.02: How Plagiarism Occurs
  104. 5.03: Assessing Source Quality
  105. 5.04: Why We Cite Sources
  106. 5.05: When Sources Must Be Cited (Checklist)
  107. 5.06: Integrating Source Material
  108. 5.07: Blending Source Material with Your Own Work
  109. 5.08: Anatomy of a Well-Cited Paragraph
  110. 5.09: Best Practices in the Modern Library
  111. 5.10: Some Recommended Print Resources
  112. 5.11: Author-Year System- In-Text Citation
  113. 5.12: Number System- In-Text Citation
  114. 5.13: Author-Year System- References Pages
  115. 5.14: Sample Author-Year System References Page
  116. 5.15: Number System- References Pages
  117. 5.16: FAQs about Citing Sources
  118. 06: Writing Documents for Classes
  119. 6.01: Introduction
  120. 6.02: Outlines
  121. 6.03: Sample Outline
  122. 6.04: Proposals
  123. 6.05: Sample Proposal
  124. 6.06: Annotated Bibliographies
  125. 6.07: Sample Annotated Bibliography
  126. 6.08: Descriptive Abstracts
  127. 6.09: Sample Descriptive Abstract
  128. 6.10: Progress Reports
  129. 6.11: Sample Progress Report
  130. 6.12: Memos
  131. 6.13: Essays and Term Papers
  132. 6.14: Technical Reports
  133. 6.15: Internship and Co-op Reports
  134. 07: Presenting Yourself in Person and Online
  135. 7.01: Introduction
  136. 7.02: E-Mail Etiquette
  137. 7.03: Effective Grammar Checking
  138. 7.04: Oral Presentation and Powerpoint
  139. 7.05: Online Portfolios
  140. 7.06: Tips for Interviews
  141. 08: Resumes
  142. 8.01: Introduction
  143. 8.02: Writing the Conventional Resume
  144. 8.03: Quality Checking Your Resume
  145. 8.04: Common Action Words Used to Describe Job Experience
  146. 8.05: Sample Conventional Resumes
  147. 8.06: More Advanced More Daring Resumes
  148. 8.07: Sample Advanced More Daring Resumes
  149. 8.08: The Graduate Student and Post-Graduate Resume
  150. 8.09: Sample Graduate Student and Post-Graduate Resumes
  151. 8.10: Computer Scanning of Resumes
  152. 8.11: Sample Computer Scannable Resume
  153. 09: Professional Letters
  154. 9.01: Introduction
  155. 9.02: Writing Cover Letters
  156. 9.03: Sample Cover Letters
  157. 9.04: Professional Letters
  158. 9.05: Sample Professional Letters
  159. 10: Journal Articles about Writing
  160. 10.01: Introduction
  161. 10.02: Comments From the Geological Society of America Bulletin Editors
  162. 10.03: Advice to Scientist Writers- Beware Old Fallacies
  163. 10.04: Precise Writing for a Precise Science
  164. 10.05: The Universal Recipe Or How To Get Your Manuscript Accepted By Persnickety Editors
  165. 10.06: The Science of Scientific Writing