Technical Writing: Process and Product (4th Edition)

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Summary: This really is a good book.
Review: I learned a lot from this book.

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Summary: FINALLY! A Good Book in the Field of Technical Writing!
Review: Steve and Sharon Gerson provide a comprehensive guide to Technical Writing, and then some. The reader gains practical technical communication knowledge and helpful guidelines to the job search as an added bonus. This book should be on the shelves of anyone with a career that require concise communication skills (in other words, EVERBODY).

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Summary: Useful and valuable ....
Review: Terrific, easily readable, and highly recommended for tech writers and those learning the craft, as well as for those corporate staff who will work with tech writers.

Liked the parts on short reports, long reports, grammar, punctuation, research, graphics, oral presentations, instructions, technical description, and objectives.

Did not like the wasted political-correctness (PC) ink devoted to "sexist language," which was unnecessary and does not fit in with the value of the other material in this book. That kind of condescending verbiage detracts from an otherwise superb and useful text.

Still valuable for most readers.

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Summary: Could you make a good even worse?
Review: There has to be better books than this. Every third word is a contraction. i have no problem with them persay except should we use them all the time? besides the teacher who is teaching my class (Steve Gerson) wrote the book so it seems like a way for him to make money on the side and the ability to make the students use his book. His content on web pages should have been left out because its outated. Overall try not to use this book.