Professional communications : a handbook for civil engineers
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| Main Author | |
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
| Published |
Reston, Va. :
American Society of Civil Engineers,
©2005.
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| Subjects | |
| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9780784471111 0784471118 0784407320 9780784407325 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xv, 251 pages) : illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- International Best Practice in Report Writing: Getting Started
- The Basics of Technical Writing
- What to aim for: characteristics of an effective document
- Solutions to the main problems: questions and action plan
- The Structure of an Engineering Document
- The traditional basic skeleton of most reports
- A navigational pathway: the sections that engineers read first
- Traditional report structure: the diamond structure of a document
- Structure for an executive audience: nontraditional report structure
- Sections of a document: also diamond-shaped
- Helping nonengineers to understand a complex document
- Deliberate repetition of information in a document
- Organizing a Document and Choosing Appropriate Sections
- Why plan?
- Steps to take when planning a document
- Using the Outline mode of Microsoft Word
- Brief descriptions of possible sections to choose for a document
- Presentation Style
- The Sections of a Document
- Requirements for Sections and Elements of a Document
- Listing of commonly used sections and elements of a document
- Requirements for the basic skeleton of sections
- Requirements for commonly used preliminary sections
- Requirements for sections commonly used at the start of the main body of the document
- Requirements for sections commonly used at the end of a document
- Requirements for other possible sections, in alphabetical order
- Specific Types of Documents
- Summarizing: An Executive Summary, a Summary, and a Conference or Journal Paper Abstract.