Engineering Words: Communicating clearly in the workplace

Over the course of a career, every engineer needs to communicate, in both written and oral form, with other engineers and non-engineers. Yet, too many engineers never develop this basic skill.

Engineering Words draws on the authors' extensive experience as technical communicators and their popular class in technical communication for engineers at the University of California, Riverside, to present a comprehensive introduction to communicating in the business world.

This second edition expands to cover writing tools (including AI tools), functioning in today's workplace, ethics, and selling your ideas.

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Engineering Words: Communicating clearly in the workplace

Over the course of a career, every engineer needs to communicate, in both written and oral form, with other engineers and non-engineers. Yet, too many engineers never develop this basic skill.

Engineering Words draws on the authors' extensive experience as technical communicators and their popular class in technical communication for engineers at the University of California, Riverside, to present a comprehensive introduction to communicating in the business world.

This second edition expands to cover writing tools (including AI tools), functioning in today's workplace, ethics, and selling your ideas.

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Engineering Words: Communicating clearly in the workplace

Engineering Words: Communicating clearly in the workplace

Engineering Words: Communicating clearly in the workplace

Engineering Words: Communicating clearly in the workplace

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Overview

Over the course of a career, every engineer needs to communicate, in both written and oral form, with other engineers and non-engineers. Yet, too many engineers never develop this basic skill.

Engineering Words draws on the authors' extensive experience as technical communicators and their popular class in technical communication for engineers at the University of California, Riverside, to present a comprehensive introduction to communicating in the business world.

This second edition expands to cover writing tools (including AI tools), functioning in today's workplace, ethics, and selling your ideas.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781937434892
Publisher: XML Press
Publication date: 10/01/2025
Edition description: 2nd ed.
Pages: 296
Product dimensions: 7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Sharon Burton consults as a technical content strategist and teaches part-time at the University of California, Riverside, in the Bourns College of Engineering. Leveraging her graduate cultural anthropology education, her career has been built around making content and content development easier for both businesses and content consumers. During that time, she has also taught upwards of 8,000 people in corporate and university-level courses.

Bonni Graham Gonzalez teaches part-time at the University of California, Riverside, in the Bourns College of Engineering. Bonni's career has focused around storytelling, including designing and writing manuals that actually explain how to use products and creating award-winning marketing materials that both educate and sell.
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