Developed by a legendary author team with decades of combined academic and professional experience, the book's intuitive, alphabetical organization makes it easy to navigate its extensive coverage of grammar, usage, and style. Plus, updated, in-depth treatment of pressing issues like the job search, audience awareness, source documentation, and social media use on the job resonate both in class and at the office.

This book will be useful for students studying technical disciplines who require support with technical writing and communication.

Abbreviations Abstracts Abstract / Concrete Words Acceptances/Refusals (for Employment) Acknowledgments Acronyms and InitialismsAdapting to New Technologies Adjectives Adjustment Messages Adverbs Affectation AgreementAllusions Ambiguity Antonyms Ampersands Apostrophes Appendixes Application Cover Letters Appositives Articles Audience Awkwardness Biased LanguageBibliographiesBlogs and ForumsBrainstormingBrainstormingBracketBrochuresBuzzwordsCapitalizationCase Cause-and-EffectChronological Clarity Clauses Clichés Coherence Collaborative Writing Colons Comma Splice Commas Comparison Comparison ComplaintsComplements Conciseness Compound Words Conclusions Conjunctions Connotation / Denotation Content Management Context Contractions Contractions Copyrights, Patents, and Trademarks Correspondence Cover Messages (or Transmittals) Dangling Modifiers Dashes Dates Defining Terms Definition Description DescriptionDirect Address Division-and-ClassificationDocument Management Documenting Sources Double Negatives Drawings Ellipses E-mail Emphasis English as a Second Language English, Varieties of Environmental Impact Statements Ethics in WritingEuphemismsExclamation MarksExecutive SummariesExpletivesExpletives Exposition FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)Feasibility Reports Figures of Speech Flowcharts Foreign Words in EnglishFormal Reports FormsFormsFunctional Shift Functional Shift Garbled Sentences Gender General and Specific Global Communication Global Graphics Glossaries Gobbledygook Grant Proposals Grammar Graphs Headers and FootersHeadings HyphensIdioms IndexingIncident Reports InfographicsInquiries and ResponsesInstant Messaging and Live Chat Instructions Intensifiers International Correspondence Interjections Interviewing for Information Interviewing for a Job IntroductionsInvestigative ReportsItalics Job DescriptionsJargonJob Search Laboratory ReportsLayout and DesignLettersListening Lists Literature Reviews Literature ReviewsLogic ErrorsManuals MalapropismsMaps Mathematical Equations Mathematical Equations Meetings Memos Methods of DevelopmentMinutes of Meetings Modifiers Mixed Constructions MoodNarration Newsletter Articles NewslettersNominalizationsNote-TakingNounsNumber (Grammar)Numbers Objects Online Professional ProfileOrder-of-Importance OrganizationOrganizational Charts Outlining PaceParagraphs Parallel StructureParaphrasingParenthesesParts of Speech Periods Person Photographs PersuasionPhrases PlagiarismPlain Language Point of View Positive Writing Possessive Case Preparation Prefixes PrepositionsPresentations Process Explanation Progress and Activity Reports Pronoun Reference Pronouns Proofreading Proposals ProofreadingPunctuation PurposeQuestion MarksQuestionnaires Questionnaires Quotation Marks QuotationsReference Letters Readers Refusal Letters Repetition Reports Repurposing Requests for ProposalsResearch Resignation Letters Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Elements Résumés RevisionRhetorical Questions Run-on Sentences ScopeSelecting the Medium SemicolonsSentence Construction Sentence FaultsSentence Variety Sequential SlashesSocial Media Spatial Specifications SpellingStyleSubordinationSentence Fragments Synonyms Suffixes SyntaxTables Tables of Contents Technical Writing StyleTelegraphic Style TenseTest Reports Text Messaging TitlesThesaurus Tone Trade Journal Articles Transition Trip Reports Usability Testing Usage Unity Vague Words Verbals VerbsVisuals Voice White Papers Word Choice Writing a Draft Writing for the Web "You" Viewpoint