Technical writing A-Z: a commonsense guide to engineering reports and theses (US Edition)

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