KEY BENEFIT: In a concise, streamlined format, this complete technical communication book draws on the strengths of John M. Lannon's best-selling Technical Communication(now in its eighth edition) but also includes state-of-the-art information on writing and researching in cyberspace, copyright, privacy, and ethics, usability, page design, and visual communication. The book takes a situational approach, emphasizing issues of audience, purpose, and task. Offering a critical look at communication technologies in relation to technical communication this book is designed for a broad range of readers. KEY TOPICS: Concise Format.Responding to consumer requests for a more wieldy book, The Concise Guide is the first book in this format designed to be the primary book for an introduction to Technical Communications. It allows readers to easily and affordably supplement the book with their own materials, materials from industry, or other examples. Based on the market leading Tech Comm book. Lannon's Technical Communication 8/e is the undisputed market leader. The Concise Guide builds on that tradition. The Global Window. technical communication. Click on this. Each chapter includes a boxed feature which offers relevant connections to Internet sources which add additional depth to the materials covered in the chapter. Coverage of technology/new media. The Concise Guide is the first Technical Communication book which acknowledges that most technical communication today is electronic-whether it be Web sites, CD-ROM helps files, or e-mail reports, today's technical communicators work more in the new media than in the old ones. The Concise Guide offers a seamless connection between the new and old worlds of technical communication.MARKET: Technical Writing
Sisters is the first major history of the pivotal role played by nuns in the building of American society. Nuns were the first feminists, argues Fialka. They became the nation's first cadre of independent, professional women. Some nursed, some taught, and many created and managed new charitable organizations, including large hospitals and colleges. In the 1800s nuns moved west with the frontier, often starting the first hospitals and schools in immigrant communities. They provided aid and service in the Chicago fire, cared for orphans and prostitutes in the California Gold Rush and brought professional nursing skills to field hospitals run by both armies in the Civil War. Their work was often done in the face of intimidation from such groups as the Know Nothings and the Ku Klux Klan. In the 1900s they built the nation's largest private school and hospital systems and brought the Catholic Church into the civil rights movement. As their numbers began to decline in the 1970s, many sisters were forced to take professional jobs as lawyers, probation workers, managers and hospital executives because their salaries were needed to support older nuns, many of whom lacked a pension system. Currently there are about 75,000 sisters in America, down from 204,000 in 1968. Their median age is sixty-nine. In Sisters, Fialka reveals the strength of the spiritual capital and the unprecedented reach of the caring institutions that religious women created in America.
This writing guide/reader/handbook demystifies writing by presenting the writing process as a series of critical thinking decisions about audience and purpose. Widely admired for its clear, readable style, "The Writing Process" focuses on writing as decision-making, with a wealth of student samples in various draft stages and a strong collection of professional readings-essays, fiction, poetry, memoirs, and cartoons-to illustrate writing strategies. Helps readers understand the writing process. Writing process, research process. Anyone who wants to learn to write well.
Identifying nuns as the first feminists and sweeping in its scope and insight, "Sisters" reveals the treasure of spiritual capital that religious women have invested in America. 25 photos.
This full colour text provides a dynamic way of bringing the real world into the classroom. It is the only textbook to combine all the basic principles with real-world simulations featuring actual companies - simulations which provide students with on the job experience in ways that no other textbook can match.
Register of the Certificates Issued by John Pierce, Esquire, Paymaster General and Commissioner of Army Accounts for the United States, to Officers and Soldiers of the Continental Army Under Act of July 4, 1783
Register of the Certificates Issued by John Pierce, Esquire, Paymaster General and Commissioner of Army Accounts for the United States, to Officers and Soldiers of the Continental Army Under Act of July 4, 1783
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