作者简介 段平,首都医科大学教授,毕业于河南大学外语系,作为国家留学基金委遴选派出的访问学者,于1997年和2006年先后到美国北卡罗来纳大学、英国牛津大学和朴次茅斯大学深造,从事ESP和专业交际学(Technical Communication 简称TC)的研究。本人从事英语教学工作40余年,先后承担英语专业精读课和科技英语课,非英语专业外贸英语课,硕士和博士研究生高级英语和专业交际英语等多门课程。本人先后在在国内外学术期刊上面发表论文60余篇,所发表的文章在国内外知名杂志上的引用次数达300余次。
目录 Part One Basic Principles and Strategies Chapter 1 Introduction to Technical and Business Communication Chapter 2 Effective Reading Strategies Chapter 3 Technical Writing Process Chapter 4 Technical Style and Rhetoric Chapter 5 Audience Analysis Chapter 6 Means of Information Collection Chapter 7 Ethics and Documentation Part Two Visual Presentation Chapter 8 Graphics Chapter 9 Document Design Part Three Writing Techniques Chapter 10 Technical Definition Chapter 11 Technical Description Chapter 12 Technical Analysis Chapter 13 Technical Argumentation Part Four Tasks for Technical and Business Communication Chapter 14 Abstracts Chapter 15 Research Report Chapter 16 Literature Reviews Chapter 17 Instructions Chapter 18 Persuasive Messages Chapter 19 Oral Presentations Chapter 20 Job Application
主编推荐 段平,首都医科大学教授,毕业于河南大学外语系,作为国家留学基金委遴选派出的访问学者,于1997年和2006年先后到美国北卡罗来纳大学、英国牛津大学和朴次茅斯大学深造,从事ESP和专业交际学(Technical Communication 简称TC)的研究。本人从事英语教学工作40余年,先后承担英语专业精读课和科技英语课,非英语专业外贸英语课,硕士和博士研究生高级英语和专业交际英语等多门课程。本人先后在在国内外学术期刊上面发表论文60余篇,所发表的文章在国内外知名杂志上的引用次数达300余次。
精彩内容 Preface Technical communication (TC) and business communication (BC) belong to the field of professional communication, also known as working communication. Different from general communication, technical and business communication (TBC) is the information exchange for particular purposes, between intended participants, and in specific context. TBC as a discipline means the study of effective information exchange at work. To increase communication efficiency, TBC should follow specific pragmatic rules (also called rhetorical rules). For example, in general English, you may position the conditional clause either before or after the main clause without much of a difference. However, when writing instructions, you should follow the rule that the conditional clause must precede the main clause. Otherwise, hasty readers may act on the directions in the main clause before they reach the conditional clause, and thus fail to accurately follow the instructions. Therefore, it is important to master the pragmatic rules of technical and business communication in various contexts. In order to learn the pragmatic rules of TBC, you must first understand the features of TBC. The typical features of technical information are its great volume of information and its high-speed transmission. Moreover, since modern TBC are widely used both at work and in daily life, readers of technical information are not only experts, but also non-experts who require technical documents to be clear and concise. Therefore, to increase communication efficiency and to satisfy the needs of different audiences, TBC should fulfill three criteria: comprehensibility, usability, and accessibility. To increase comprehensibility, you should know how to write clearly and concisely, which requires you to master technical style and rhetoric. To improve usability, you should know your audience and conduct audience analysis. To enhance accessibility, you should know how to highlight key information, which
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