Non-native English-speaking Engineers’ Writing at the Workplace
Based on 55 semi-structured in-depth interviews, this book investigates 15 high-tech engineering co-op professionals’ writing experience in the workplace. It shows how the digital age has had a marked impact on the engineers’ methods of communication at work, and how on-the -job writing has affected engineers’ technical competence, shaped their professional identities, challenged their views on Chinese and English writing, and hindered their success in the workplace.
The text helps those who are struggling with writing requirements, including recent high school graduates, returning students, or those for whom English is a second language. Integrated exercises enable them to practice what they have just learned, and student papers in annotated first and revised drafts provide realistic models. Sample professional writing demonstrates how writers understand the context of their writing, utilize writing strategies, and make language choices.
IELTS Writing and Speaking Skills: Get a 7+ Band Score
Do you need to get a 7+ band score in IELTS writing and speaking? When students come to Kristin Espinar, host of the popular IELTS podcast Activate Your IELTS: Be Determined, they are often time frustrated by their previous experiences in preparing for IELTS. They can't seem to get the IELTS score that they want and they don't know why or what they are doing wrong. This book gives you the same tools, tricks, and tips that she teaches in her popular IELTS Writing and Speaking Video course so that you too can get the 7+ band score in IELTS writing and speaking that you need in order to achieve your dreams of immigrating to another country, studying abroad, or getting a graduate degree.
For undergraduate and graduate courses in Business Communication. The practical advice needed to improve writing and speaking skills for the workplace. Writing & Speaking at Work delivers practical insight and instruction to help students become effective communicators no matter where their careers may take them. Instead of detailing the various communications theories, this text focuses on the two critical communication needs of business people: writing and speaking. The fifth edition features a new chapter on how to prepare executive summaries.
