The sixth edition of Technical Communication: A Practical Approach stresses one simple principle: You learn to write best by doing as much writing as possible as early as possible. This text offers a wealth of features to help you craft effective correspondence, documents, and presentations, including the following: A focus on both the writing process and the written product, A simple "ABC" pattern for organizing all types of documents, A fictional company, McDuff, Inc., that provides a working world context for writing models and assignments, Easy-to-use, numbered guidelines for writing documents, Annotated writing models conveniently grouped at the ends of chapters, Alphabetized writing "Handbook" in the Appendix for quick reference, Ethics and international coverage and assignments in each chapter Book jacket.