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2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

12. Other Professional Writing

Author : Justin Zobel

Published in: Writing for Computer Science

Publisher: Springer London

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Abstract

Many computing graduates find that, once they enter the profession, writing is a surprisingly large component of their daily work. Researchers expect to have to write papers, book chapters, grant applications, and so on; while computing professionals expect to write material such as project and code documentation, manuals, and acceptance records. However, they might well also find themselves having to write other expert material, such as project proposals, technical assessments, tenders, purchase recommendations, reports to managements, descriptive material for the Web, or any of a wide range of kinds of document that are required in large organizations.

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Footnotes
1
Which is not at all the same thing as how excited the author is. Some topics make certain authors highly agitated, so that they press for immediate action, even if there is no discernable urgency at all. The outcome in such cases is often that the author gets told to calm down and the report gets ignored—which is far from what the author wanted.
 
2
One of my colleagues was notorious for never reading past the first ten lines of an email—and then pleading ignorance of whatever the bulk of the email said. This included reminders to update his password (he lost access to email on several occasions) and once, catastrophically, an email from a travel agent advising of changes to flights.
 
Metadata
Title
Other Professional Writing
Author
Justin Zobel
Copyright Year
2014
Publisher
Springer London
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6639-9_12

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