Not intended to be read from cover to cover, this book was designed instead to be a quick and useful reference for students, young engineers, and experienced professionals alike. It provides guidelines, advice, and technical information for preparing formal documents-covering a range of report formats (e.g. assessment, laboratory, and progress reports).
This concise, no-nonsense guide provides alphabetically ordered and cross-referenced topics, which make it easy to find answers to questions related to writing a technical report or thesis.
Topics include: the format and content of reports and theses; copyright and plagiarism; print and Internet reference citation; abbreviations; units and conversion factors; significant figures; mathematical notation and equations; writing styles and conventions; frequently confused words; grammatical errors and punctuation.
It also provides commonsense advice on issues such as how to get started and how to keep your reader's attention.
| ISBN(s) : | 0791802361 |
| Note : | This product is unavailable in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus |
| Number of Pages : | 240 |
| Published : | 01/01/2005 |
