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Science and Technical Writing: A Manual of Style 2nd Edition
Author: Visit ‘s Philip Rubens Page ID: 0415925509

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The book really shines when it tackles the specifics of science writing. The sections on scientific terms and symbols; technology terms; units of measurement; mathematical expressions; equations; and citations, notes, and references are invaluable for those who frequently deal with these issues.
–Bob Andrews,Technical Communication

About the Author

Philip Rubens is Professor of Technical Communications at East Carolina University.

Hardcover: 544 pagesPublisher: Routledge; 2 edition (December 19, 2000)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0415925509ISBN-13: 978-0415925501 Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #2,952,312 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1079 in Books > Reference > Writing, Research & Publishing Guides > Writing > Technical #1323 in Books > Science & Math > Reference #2015 in Books > Medical Books > Research

This is the best style guide for technical writing I have ever found. It gives more every day practical information than any of the other technical writing books and gives that information in a highly usable format.
My only complaint–my standard complaint about my reference books–is that the index is far less comprehensive than it ought to be. Given modern computer indexing capabilities, one would think authors and publishers could do a better job.
However, with this is one of the four essential books: 1. Strunk and White, Elements of Style, 2. Prentice Hall, Words Into Type, 3. Garner, A Dictionary of Modern American Usage (for the British tech writer, Fowler’s Modern English Usage) and 4. Ruebens, Science and Technical Writing. With these four, a technical writer can handle almost any situation that arises. There are other books covering special fields that can be added, but these four will always be the bedrock.
If you are a professional technical writer or only an occasional one, you can’t go wrong having this book handy on your desktop.

The second edition of this text makes many useful changes to the previous edition. Hopefully, readers WILL peruse the Preface. On page 36 of that section, there is a FULL explanation of the location and summarizing techniques that make this text extremely usable.
Yes, each chapter does begin with a bulleted list that catalogs the major sub-sections in that specific chapter. Second, the Table of Contents offers page numbers to major topical changes. Third, the Index (compiled by a former president of the American Society of Indexers) references each paragraph in the text.
So, there are multiple ways to find specific pieces of information by using one of three major location techniques: topical changes in the toc, paragraph references in the index, and chapter level tocs at the beginning of each chapter. The latter are NOT, as one reviewer suggests, simply bulleted lists.
I’m happy to see this book issued as a Kindle book and hope others find it useful as an addition to their professional library.

I found this text difficult to use on a regular bases. Yes it has a lot of useful content but searching through it and figuring out how this are organized is a pain. I ended up making use of the ACS: Styles Guide because its more aligned with the type of writing I do. If you can purchases this for a decent price then I would say it might be worth it.

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