Technical Communication

READER-CENTERED APPROACH: The book's premise is that students' success in the writing they do in their careers will be measured by their readers' responses. If they write communications that help their readers easily find and use the information they want or need, and/or communications that influence their readers' attitudes in the intended way, they will write effectively. As this book addresses each aspect of writing, it supports instructors' efforts to help students learn how to meet workplace readers' needs and expectations and how to impact these readers' attitudes and actions.

FLEXIBLE SUPPORT FOR DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO THE COURSE: The reader-centered approach and the design of the book provide a flexible teaching resource, enabling instructors to select any array of chapters and projects while still preparing their students, whatever their majors, with sophisticated yet transferable skills they will need wherever they choose to work after graduation.

IN-DEPTH COVERAGE IN AN EASY-TO-LEARN MANNER: In most chapters, the major points are distilled into easy-to-remember guidelines whose implications and applications are then elaborated. The guidelines themselves reinforce one another because they all flow from a common set of reader-centered principles and processes.

WRITER'S TUTORIALS AND PLANNING GUIDES AVAILABLE IN MINDTAP®: Faculty can download the "Planning Guides" and also "Revision Checklists" so they can adapt them to their specific assignments.