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How to Write Technical Reports

Understandable Structure, Good Design, Convincing Presentation

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  • Offers a practical, step-by-step guide to scientific writing
  • Presents an indispensable, clear and comprehensibly written guideline
  • New edition focusses only on electronic reports and the needs of the electronic world
  • Includes a chapter on oral presentations
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. Introduction

    • Heike Hering
    Pages 1-3
  3. Planning the Technical Report

    • Heike Hering
    Pages 5-32
  4. Writing and Creating the Technical Report

    • Heike Hering
    Pages 33-158
  5. Presenting the Technical Report

    • Heike Hering
    Pages 173-226
  6. Summary

    • Heike Hering
    Pages 227-228
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 229-249

About this book

The 2nd edition was fundamentally changed and adopted to be displayed not only in book form, but also on all kinds of electronic devices. The following sections have been reduced or skipped: Tables, Scheme and diagram, Perspective drawing, Technical drawing and bill of materials, Pictorial re-arrangement of text, Copyright and copyright laws, Details about text accentuation, Automatic creation of indexes, tables, lists, labels and cross-references, Creating slides with presentation graphics programs.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Hannover, Germany

    Heike Hering

About the author

Dr. Heike Hering has a private teaching institute in Hannover and has been a lecturer at the Hochschule Hannover - University of Applied Sciences and Arts as well as FH Aachen for many years. She has written and translated software manuals for a CAD company in German and English and was safety engineer for 9 years. Thereafter she has worked at the TÃœV NORD Academy in Hannover for 18 years and has developed e-learning programs, took part in software projects and worked as safety engineer.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus-Geert Heyne represented the fields of communication, combustion engines and statics at the Hochschule RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Rüsselsheim.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: How to Write Technical Reports

  • Book Subtitle: Understandable Structure, Good Design, Convincing Presentation

  • Authors: Heike Hering

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-58107-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-58105-6Published: 15 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-58107-0Published: 29 December 2018

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 249

  • Number of Illustrations: 55 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour

  • Additional Information: Original German edition published by Vieweg, 2007

  • Topics: Job Careers in Science and Engineering, Writing Skills

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eBook USD 79.99
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Softcover Book USD 99.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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