Reporting Technical Information, Tenth Edition

Chapter Notes

Chapter 1: An Overview of Technical Writing

  1. Paul V. Anderson, "What Survey Research Tells Us about Writing at Work," in Writing in Nonacademic Settings, ed. Lee Odell and Dixie Goswami (New York: Guilford, 1985), 30.

  2. Anderson 40.

  3. Anderson 54.

  4. Philip W. Swain, "Giving Power to Words," American Journal of Physics 13 (1945): 320.

Chapter 2: Composing

  1. Stephen S. Hall, "Aplysia and Hermissenda," Science 85, (May 1985) 33.

  2. Lester Faigley and Thomas P. Miller, "What We Learn from Writing on the Job," College English 44 (1982): 562 63.

  3. Lee Odell, Dixie Goswami, Anne Herrington, and Doris Quick, "Studying Writing in Non-Academic Settings," in New Essays in Technical and Scientific Communication: Research, Theory, Practice, ed. Paul V. Anderson, R. John Brockmann, and Carolyn R. Miller (Farmingdale, NY: Baywood, 1983), 27 28.

  4. Lillian Bridwell and Ann Duin, "Looking In-Depth at Writers: Computers as Writing Medium and Research Tool," in Writing On-Line: Using Computers in the Teaching of Writing, ed. J. L. Collins and E. A. Sommers (Montclair, NJ: Boyton/Cook, 1985), 119.

Chapter 3: Writing Collaboratively

  1. In this chapter we are indebted to the following: Rebecca E. Burnett, "Substantive Conflict in a Cooperative Context: A Way to Improve the Collaborative Planning of Workplace Documents," Technical Communication 38 (1991): 532 39. Mary Beth Debs, "Collaborative Writing in Industry," in Technical Writing: Theory and Practice, ed. Bertie E. Fearing and W. Keats Sparrow (New York: Modern Language Association, 1989), 33 42. Collaborative Writing in Industry: Investigations in Theory and Practice, ed.

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