Abstract
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.— Edmund Burke Imagine a hotel meeting room full of engineers, scientists, and technicians reporting for a daylong workshop on technical writing. Imagine further that fate cast you to teach them how to write well. How would you proceed? I don't have to work hard to imagine that scene; I've been there many times, and I've learned a few precious things about what works and many more about what doesn't. to teach technical professionals to write (including counting on them having learned something useful in freshman composition) would fill a book, but it would be a book that I would not recommend reading. What does work is embodied nicely in a book that I do recommend, Writing Well for the Technical Professions, by Anne Eisenberg, who directs the graduate program in technical and scientific writing at Polytechnic University. As Eisenberg and I and ...
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