Handbook for Preparing Engineering Documents: From Concept to CompletionState-of-the-art in its simple, user-friendly presentation, this comprehensive handbook covers the entire process of preparing, producing, and distributing engineering documents using current computer software and the most recent technologies in information transfer. From developing concepts to effectively reaching an audience, Handbook for Preparing Engineering Documents provides everything the engineer needs to know for document preparation, production, and distribution in clear, user-friendly language. Extensive indexing and cross-referencing make it possible to find answers quickly. |
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We're going to say more about the topic in supporting sentences . • If we have a great number of supporting sentences , we've probably veered off into a new topic , or a subtopic , and it's time to begin a new paragraph .
We're going to say more about the topic in supporting sentences . • If we have a great number of supporting sentences , we've probably veered off into a new topic , or a subtopic , and it's time to begin a new paragraph .
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And to intervene when the going gets rough — as when we are asked to make diametrically opposed changes by two different reviewers . Someone has to decide ; this is what managers are for . But we can't depend on this initial buy - in to ...
And to intervene when the going gets rough — as when we are asked to make diametrically opposed changes by two different reviewers . Someone has to decide ; this is what managers are for . But we can't depend on this initial buy - in to ...
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Ask a professional editor to proofread a document , and the result is probably going to look like a Gettysburg battlefield on the morning after , bloody with red ink and ( at least figuratively ) torn to shreds .
Ask a professional editor to proofread a document , and the result is probably going to look like a Gettysburg battlefield on the morning after , bloody with red ink and ( at least figuratively ) torn to shreds .
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
How this book is organized | 8 |
Audience | 15 |
Copyright | |
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Handbook for Preparing Engineering Documents: From Concept to Completion Joan G. Nagle Limited preview - 1995 |
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| Title | Handbook for Preparing Engineering Documents: From Concept to Completion |
| Author | Joan G. Nagle |
| Publisher | IEEE Press, 1996 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Nov 2007 |
| ISBN | 0780311655, 9780780311657 |
| Length | 372 pages |
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