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Designing technical reports: writing for audiences in organizations

— Mathes, J.C. - Nama Orang; Stevenson, Dwight W. - Nama Orang;

This book began with a paradox: practicing engineers need to write efficiently and effectively; yet despite that obvious need, the writing experiences of most engineering students in college do not prepare them to write as they must in industry and government. They may have learned to write as students in the classroom, but they have not learned how to write as professionals employed in complex organizations. After they graduate, they must learn how to write as professionals. Put as simply as possible, that is what this book is all about. Every engineering student has heard-and every practicing engineer knows the essential truth of-dramatic pronouncements about his or her need for communi- cation skills. An engineer in management asserts, "an engineer who can't communicate is in trouble; a manager who can't communicate is finished." Another engineer warns, "if you can't tell them what you are doing, they'll get someone else to do it." This is a familiar theme-and a true one.

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