TABLE OF CONTENTS Part I emphasizes the composing process, introducing the book's central focus. Chapter 2 discusses how to analyze a writing situation and how to discover, arrange, revise, and edit technical information. Chapter 3 suggests strategies for working on collaborative writing projects. Chapter 4 shows how to adapt reports for various audiences. Chapter 5 emphasizes elements of style at the paragraph, sentence, and language level. Chapters 6 and 7 are new for this edition. Chapter 6 explains what it means to be ethical and how to be ethical in your writing. Chapter 7 deals with the reality of globalization and offers advice on how to write for non-American readers.
With your new engineering degree, you went to work for Southwest Coal Power (SCP), a company that builds coal-burning power plants. In the six months you've been with SCP, you've learned how new technologies are making the burning of coal cleaner and safer for the environment. SCP has contracted to build a new power plant in Roll, Arizona. Before SCP can build the plant, however, it must file an Environmental Impact Statement that details any environmental problems the plant may cause and ways that such problems would be mitigated. You have been assigned to the team writing the statement. The proposed plant will use a boiler called a...
