Engineering Writing by Design: Creating Formal Documents of Lasting Value (PB)

This book presents a novel approach to technical writing, positioning formal writing tasks as engineering design problems. It describes how to avoid logical fallacies and use physical Reasoning to catch mistakes in claims, covers the essentials of technical grammar and style as well as the elements of mathematical exposition and emphasizes the centrality of the target audience. Complete with illustrative examples, Chapter summaries and exercises, quick-reference tables and recommendations for further reading, the text demonstrates how effective writing can be achieved through engineering-based thinking.