Technical Writing. A Guide for Effective Communication

Writing a book review entails a certain amount of responsibility, particularly towards readership and, above all, towards prospective teachers and faculty who may be deciding which book to select for their courses. The publication we present today, Technical Writing. A Guide for Effective Communication, is an elaborate, dense textbook for intermediate students at a university setting. The publication is particularly suited for engineering students and professionals alike in which they will be able to find materials from different sources so that what authors propose as being an integrative approach may be fulfilled. This course book intends to familiarize students, first, with the different types of scientific texts and, second, with the characteristics of technical writing. The history of technical writing goes back a good number of decades. According to Brockman (1998), Joseph D. Chapline is considered to be the first technical writer to introduce software documentation to the rest of the world. Early in the 1940s, while working for Eckert and Mauchley, h