Technical writing for teams: the STREAM tools handbook

The book is designed to help authors of technical documents overcome the following common problems: Inconsistent formatting. Inconsistent formatting arisesas individual team members incorporate their own material into the emerging document. One especially difficult problem is the numbering of headings, figures, equations, and in-text literature citations and reference lists. Need to follow house style. Many documents need to follow the requirements of a particular journal, funding organization, etc. Incorrect grammar, punctuation, and mechanics and poor writing. Disunity. Document disunity refers to all the problems that arise when multiple people work on a single document. Poorly managed literature citations. The industry-academic tool split. Academic research groupsvery often work in LaTeX. Industry groups rarely do. Moving content between MS Word and LaTeX is difficult. This difference in tool use has complicated industry-academic collaboration for a long time.Alexander Mamishev is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineeringat the University of Washington, as well as Director of Sensors, Energy, and Automation Laboratory (SEAL), Director of Electrical Energy Industrial Consortium (EEIC), and Director of the Grainger Foundation Program. Because he supervises the creation of a great many technical documents, Prof. Mamishev has an excellent understanding of writing and writing teams from an engineering and industry perspective. He serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactionson Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREERAward, the IEEE Outstanding Branch Advisor Award, and the UW EE Outstanding Research Advisor Award. Sean Williams is the Associate Dean of the Graduate School and Associate Professor of English at Clemson University. He teaches classes on online and technical communication. He has authored and co-authored several books and journal articles on this topic. He has also received more than $1.5 million in grant awards.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-22976-7
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 14/05/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés