This brief, inexpensive text provides a complete introduction to technical writing in a handy spiral format. The authors establish a fictional telecommunications company as a context for the technical writing tasks taught in the book. In addition to the usual short documents, the book teaches how to design and develop long documents such as manuals and proposals. Professional editing, proofreading, and indexing are presented as part of technical writing.
Synopsis
This brief, inexpensive text provides a complete introduction to technical writing in a handy spiral format. The authors establish a fictional telecommunications company as a context for the technical writing tasks taught in the book. In addition to the usual short documents, the book teaches how to design and develop long documents such as manuals and proposals. Professional editing, proofreading, and indexing are presented as part of technical writing.
About the Author, William Murdick
William Murdick is Emeritus Professor of English, California University of Pennsylvania. He holds a B.A. in English from SUNY Albany, an M.F.A. in writing from the University of Iowa's Writer's Workshop, and a Ph.D. in English (Rhetoric and Linguistics) from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.William has business experience as co-owner of a computer company and as a consultant who wrote policy-procedure manuals. He is the author of five books: in addition to the two Portable books, he has written two composition books for Jain Publishing (2003 and 2005) and one on word processing (1984). He has also published many technical articles on computer use and scholarly articles, mainly on the teaching of writing.
Jonathan C. Bloemker is a senior technical writer at Compunetix, Inc., a Pittsburgh-area telecommunications firm. He holds a B.A. in English from California University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in English from Duquesne University, and a B.S. in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh. Bloemker has extensive experience as a technical communicator for several Pittsburgh area companies. He presently writes documentation for the Government and International Contracts Department at Compunetix.
