TITLE : TECHNICAL WRITING IN THE CORPORATE WORLD.

Are you insecure about your writing ability? Do you feel unprepared when you are asked to submit a report? When you write about a technical subject, do you wonder if your audience understands you?

Problems with organizational communications are well documented. In one study, 182 corporate leaders were asked if the documents they received were adequate for their purpose. Not a single leader replied in the affirmative. In another study 50 leaders in engineering and business companies complained that the writing they received lacked logic and coherence. They called for employees to write clearly so that information may be transferred easily.

This book will enable you to improve your writing skills so that you may deal confidently with even the most technical subjects. The goals of this book are to allow you to:

* understand the unique nature of technical writing * develop strategies for communicating technical information, and * revise documents with confidence.

Our plan is to make you think about our advice in the context of your own organizational community. As you read the case studies and complete the exercises we have prepared, you will improve your ability to convey technically complex material logically and coherently. In addition, our use of sample documents will allow you to analyze and identify your own writing weaknesses and strengths.

Why is written communication so important? We maintain that effective communication is the lifeblood of all modern government and industry. The planning, promotion, and assessment of an organization's activities are recorded in its documentation. In the modern organization, therefore, writing takes on a far greater importance than you might have considered. This book will help you to strengthen your technical writing skills so that you will realize the advantages of communicating effectively in what experts call your discourse community or workplace.