The "Manual on Scientific Communication for Postgraduate Students and Young Researchers in Technical, Natural, and Life Sciences" is meant to be a practical guide for the preparation of theses, papers, posters, and other scientific documents. Upon going through the different chapters, the readers should be able to critically search for…

Practice articles are critical to scholarship in the counseling field. This article provides readers with practical guidelines for the content and organization of practice articles, with the broad objective of developing a framework for presenting such contributions that may be consistently utilized within the counseling literature. A consistent…

Suggests ways for technical communicators to improve their visual skills and visual literacy. (SR)

Discusses the process of writing usable instructions, relying on organization, formatting, and visual displays to aid comprehension. (JAD)

Asks why technical documents rarely contain satisfactory glossaries. Suggests ways to avoid common problems such as superabundance of terms defined, complex definitions, non-parallel structuring of definitions, and excessive cross-referencing. (JAD)

Describes the characteristics of brochures. Discusses writing and presentation techniques that are applicable to any brochure project. (SR)

Discusses what illustrations can do for technical communication projects. Presents criteria for deciding when to use illustrations and for choosing appropriate and effective illustrations. Discusses working with an illustrator. (SR)

Offers suggestions and examples of how to write clear and effective notes, cautions, and warnings. (SR)

Describes a "video treatment," a document which outlines what a video intends to communicate to its prospective audience, how that information will be communicated, how much it will cost, and how long it will take to complete the project. (SR)

Notes confusion in understanding the purposes of abstracts and summaries. Analyzes their essential aspects (purpose, reader, tone, logic, relation to the parent document, and length) to provide an understanding of their essential distinctions. (SR)

Illustrates the challenges and benefits of setting business objectives for a project. Describes three ways that a technical communication product can contribute to the business performance of an organization. Explains how to write a business objective, and the benefits of doing so. (SR)

Contrasts ideas of culture in social constructionist and cultural study research designs, addressing how each type of design impacts issues that can be analyzed in research studies. Explores implications for objectivity and validity in speculative cultural study research. Suggests how technical writing can be constituted as an object of study…

This workbook is about producing the "Inquiry Brief" or "Inquiry Brief Proposal" for TEAC (Teacher Education Accreditation Council) accreditation. It is designed as a companion to the TEAC "Guide to Accreditation." The exercises in this workbook are selected by the writing workshop presenters to help program faculty get started on their "Brief."…

Evaluation audiences can understand evaluation reports if the reports are written in common language, use proper organization, and incorporate information which provides the audience with a context for understanding the report. Suggestions about how this can be achieved are offered. (Author/RL)

Offers a brief discussion on how to organize the writing for a technical manual. (SR)