Technical Communication: A Reader-Centered Approach, 7th Edition (Available Titles CourseMate)

Additional purchase required for supplemental materialsThroughout this book, the reader is pointed to inserts in the margin offering additional help on many points, and web addresses are given. Be advised that purchasing this book does not allow you access to this additional information. You are required to have an access code, which the publisher's technical support person says must be purchased in addition to the book.Poor editingThis book may be the most poorly edited textbook I've encountered in 5 years of university classes. The additional shame of it is that the subject matter is Technical Writing, which should /begin/ with good editing. A few examples of editing issues, which often seem to be related to the very point the author is advising against, are given below.To have a typo ("tremperatures") in an example in which the author advocates "bolstering confidence" by "preparing a neat and carefully proofread memo" is counterproductive.The author cautions against graphics that detract from your message or confuse readers, then uses one. Page 343 contains a graph with a confusing relationship between the "Salary" scale on the vertical axis and the various animal populations on the horizontal axis. Were these paid beasts?There is an excellent point presented on page 226, which states that the words /this/ or /that/ should be followed by a noun when used as an echo word at the beginning of a sentence. At the top of the same page, however, the author uses /these/ without a noun after it, and again two pages later, on page 228, he uses the phrase, "when this happens," again with no associated noun.I don't understand the author's phrase, "but they can always lead to the unethical treatment of other people," on page 228. I understand "they can lead" and "they always lead," or even perhaps, in rare circumstances, "they always can lead," but not "they can always lead."Troubling gender choicesIn addition to the poor editing, the author made troubling gender choices for the characters presented in his examples. In the first few chapters, "Sarah" is a metallurgist, while "Larry" is a nutritionist; "Alyssa" receives correspondence from "Frank" on testing she required; "Marti" is a mechanical engineer, while "Donald" uses inflammatory language in his memo.ConclusionI have no idea what other texts may be available for technical writing instruction, but if I were a professor, I'd be looking for them.

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