Practical Strategies for Technical Communication

by Mike Markel

In Practical Strategies for Technical Communication, Mike Markel gives students the essentials they'll need to communicate successfully in today's workplace. The book offers concise and accessible yet thorough coverage of audience and purpose, research, style, and document design, and strategies for designing all of the major document types. For the second edition, Markel has worked with organizations to choose sample documents and annotate them with insights and advice from the employees who developed them. Throughout the text, a new set of engaging graphics provides visual explanations of key concepts.

Genres: Nonfiction

560 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 26, 2012

About the author

I am the author of eight books in the Detectives Seagate and Miner Mystery series: Big Sick Heart, Deviations, The Broken Saint, Three-Ways, Fractures, The Reveal, Players, and Swerve. For more information, please visit my site: http://mikemarkel.com.

I'm looking forward to meeting people on Goodreads.

Reviews

[Lauryn · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really like the "Tech Tips" sections in this book, which show students how to format documents and create graphics in MS Word, which, unfortunately, is the only tool available to them on our classroom computers.

[Katie J Schwartz · Rating 3 out of 5]

A tiny bit outdated, but still useful. I actually paid the extra fee to keep this one instead of returning it to textbook rental.

Three Stars: Not bad, but not fantastic either. I'll still recommend it, if I think that person might like it more than me.

[Nate E. · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought this textbook was excellent, the format and layout are very easy to follow. I have referred back to this particular book several times since the completion of the course I was using it for.