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PRENTICE-HALL HANDBOOK FOR WRITERS, 4th Edition
by GLENN LEGGETT, Grinnell College C. DAVID MEAD, Michigan State University, and WILLIAM CHARY AT
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PRENTICE-HALL HANDBOOK FOR WRITERS, 4th Edition
by GLENN LEGGETT, Grinnell College C. DAVID MEAD, Michigan State University, and WILLIAM CHARY AT
Prentice-Hall Handbook for Writers is a consistently dynamic handbook which incorporates new ideas and methods in each edition. In the new 4th Edition the authors present major revisions of their highly successful composition manual, organized so that all the necessary information on writing is readily accessible to the student and teacher. New material on language and grammar in the 4th edition reflects the greatest improvement since the last edition appeared.
Designed both as a guide and reference book, the 4th Edition offers the basic essentials of clear, concise writing in an intelligent, highly readable manner. The revision of this widely adopted handbook incorporates a great deal of expansion and restatement of text material. With a new design aimed at greater clarity and compactness, coupled with a refinement of material, this is an attractive, easy-to-read handbook that facilitates a thorough understanding of the rules and conventions governing effective expression.
Published 1965 448 pages
REPORT WRITERS' HANDBOOK
by CHARLES E. VAN HAGAN, U.S. Naval Ordnance Test Station, California
Report Writers' Handbook is a practical guide to report preparation, which furnishes workable solutions to specific questions of practicing scientists, engineers, and other professional people who must write reports as part of their daily work. The author does not stress grammar usage. He guides in the compilation of reports, using proven procedures and techniques to supply practical, workable solutions to specific problems.
The book covers all phases of report preparation from the original plan to final duplication and binding, with special emphasis on illustrations and tabular presentation. Special points are set off from the book as notes. These are concepts, warnings, or other points that, if heeded, will make the task of writing a report easier.
Detailed section headings and a thorough index make the book handy for finding the answer to a specific question. The author is an engineer with years of experience as a technical editor and publisher, so the style is simple, direct, and understandable.
Published 1961 276 pages

What, in the opinion of top professionals, are the keys to successfully written reports? Where do most reports fall down? What are the mechanical problems that plague report writers, even seasoned technical writers?

REPORT WRITING by Harold F. Graves and Lyne S. S. Hoffman is one of the most famous guides ever published in its field. In the new 4th Edition, the authors have surveyed current opinions from more than two hundred leaders of business, industry, and government—decision makers through whose hands pass every conceivable form of professional report, from memoranda through complex technical studies. Beginning with this professional consensus of what is required in the field of report writing, this newly expanded guide provides the essential keys to the preparation of every variety of professional business report demanded today.
Detailing the techniques applicable to every report writing situation, here is a reference work that belongs in the library of any professional whose duties include the preparation of written material.
Outlined through this work are the methods by which the writer must approach a given problem: the factors that determine the organization and
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structure of the report, the techniques of subject handling and, perhaps most important, the clear and useful presentation of the material.
Guidance to the planning of reports is enhanced by the inclusion of a sampling of the requirements set down by leading business organizations for their report writers. There are also numerous examples of how these requirements have been met in practice, and how they could have been improved.
This new edition includes an entirely new Handbook of the mechanics of language in writing. Together with a broad bibliography of technical and business indexes and abstracts, designed to guide the writer to important sources, REPORT WRITING forms a virtually encyclopedic reference to a subject of ever increasing importance in the business world today.
Harold F. Graves is Professor Emeritus of English composition at Pennsylvania State University. Lyne S. S. Hoffman is Associate Professor of English at the same institution. In ad- . dition to the present work, both authors have published numerous works in the field of technical and professional writing. Vissza