By Trevor M. Young

Not intended to be read from cover to cover, this book was designedinstead to be a quick and useful reference for students, youngengineers, and experienced professionals alike. It providesguidelines, advice, and technical information for preparing formaldocuments--covering a range of report formats (e.g. assessment,laboratory and progress reports). This concise, no-nonsense guideprovides alphabetically ordered and cross-referenced topics, whichmake it easy to find answers to questions related to writing atechnical report or thesis.

Topics include: the format and content of reports and theses;copyright and plagiarism; print and Internet reference citationabbreviations; units and conversion factors; significant figures;mathematical notation and equations; writing styles andconventions; frequently confused words; grammatical errors andpunctuation. It also provides commonsense advice on issues such ashow to get started and how to keep your reader's attention.