At once sophisticated and practical, Writing in Engineering: A Brief Guide leads students through how to compose design reports, lab reports, and other key engineering genres while attending to the principles of argument, style, and visual design. It is a part of a series of brief, discipline-specific writing guides from Oxford University Press designed for today's writing-intensive college courses.

The series is edited by Thomas Deans (University of Connecticut) and Mya Poe (Northeastern University).

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Robert Irish is a senior lecturer in the Engineering Communication Program at the University of Toronto.

"Writing in Engineering successfully attacks one of the critical communication problems engineering students encounter: it presents the theoretical and micro-scale examples that they need to form arguments." --John J. Reap, Quinnipiac University

"The text is comprehensive yet concise. Its approach is accessible and pragmatic, a strategy that is clearly attuned to the audience at which it is aimed." --Susanne E. Hall, California Institute of Technology