Publisher's Synopsis
Encyclopaedia of Modern Methods in Scientific and Technical Writing covers design principles, writing, editing, production, fairness, grammar, and punctuation. This encyclopaedia offers a narrative history of technical writing as a cultural practice and the system of scientific knowledge it controls. Scientific writing is defined as experts communicating through the written word with other experts or as experts to a non-technical or non-scientific audience. Technical writing is any written form of writing or drafting technical communication used in a variety of technical and occupational fields, such as computer hardware and software, engineering, chemistry, aeronautics, robotics, finance, consumer electronics, and biotechnology. The text Scientific and Technical Writing: A Manual of Style provides both the style and the organizational guidance needed to produce the clearest and most accurate scientific and technical writing. A randomized controlled trial comparing standard and on-line instruction about scientific writing have been presented in first chapter. Second chapter provides an overview of the technical writing field as well as how technical writers are utilized by software development companies. In third chapter, we consider aspects of scientific and technical writing. The aim of fourth chapter is to describe experiences of Nonnative English-speaking scholars and trainees regarding scientific writing in English using a qualitative phenomenographic approach. In fifth chapter, we investigate the particularities of scientific writing and explore the features and limitations of existing tools for scientific writing. Sixth chapter deals with the use of Weblogs and Microblogs during a course in computer science. Seventh chapter focuses on advanced technical writing. A guide for writing in the scientific forum has been presented in eighth chapter. Ninth chapter discusses science writing in the real world. The aim of text clumping for technical intelligence has been described in tenth chapter. A web application for scientific writing in virtual interdisciplinary groups has been presented in last chapter.
