{"title":"The editorial function in scientific organization","authors":"J. Chapline","doi":"10.1109/TEWS.1960.6594510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEWS.1960.6594510","url":null,"abstract":"An analysis is made of the true functions of a good technical editor. In addition to giving his attention to language rules and conventions, an editor must be alert to the ambiguities and weak points in the draft copies of manuscripts. An editor should minimize the distortions that may appear in the communication process. When properly applied, the editorial function can actually give direction and focus to scientific pursuits.","PeriodicalId":118434,"journal":{"name":"IRE Transactions on Engineering Writing and Speech","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1960-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125898158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Communication: Art or science?","authors":"G. Paskusz","doi":"10.1109/TEWS.1960.6594512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEWS.1960.6594512","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the problem of teaching technical communications to engineering students and of how an engineering college can increase the quality of communications. First, students lacking prerequisites in basic English should be screened from such communications courses; the program should then consist of systematic instruction in technical writing and speaking principles augmented by continued exercise. An outline is given of the technical communications program at UCLA.","PeriodicalId":118434,"journal":{"name":"IRE Transactions on Engineering Writing and Speech","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1960-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129761466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"More effective engineering proposals — One key to success","authors":"F. Evans","doi":"10.1109/TEWS.1960.6594511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEWS.1960.6594511","url":null,"abstract":"A review is made of the importance and significance of the technical communication in engineering R & D contract proposals. This paper shows what the Services are seeking in contracts with engineering firms and outlines the basic elements that the proposal should contain. Procedures for evaluating finished proposals are discussed, and a number of specific reasons are given for rejecting proposals. General recommendations are given for effectively shaping the material in an engineering proposal.","PeriodicalId":118434,"journal":{"name":"IRE Transactions on Engineering Writing and Speech","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1960-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129642248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Organizing a complex technical proposal effort","authors":"Eric M. Smith","doi":"10.1109/TEWS.1960.6590865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEWS.1960.6590865","url":null,"abstract":"A complex proposal is a document which offers to a potential customer an approach to a problem involving the activities of more than one department, division, or company working toward that goal. This paper discusses the organization of a hypothetical complex proposal and shows the nature of management responsibilities, the use of a “systems approach” to subdivide the workload, and the role of the Publications Project Leader.","PeriodicalId":118434,"journal":{"name":"IRE Transactions on Engineering Writing and Speech","volume":"127 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1960-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130258382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How the graphic arts can help engineering communication","authors":"A. Spence","doi":"10.1109/TEWS.1960.6590862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEWS.1960.6590862","url":null,"abstract":"Significant new developments in the graphic arts industry now make possible new and faster types of publications and reduce the high cost of publishing scientific literature. The Videograph process for producing pulse signals info printer copy is described briefly. Other items include a completely automatic printing press for the Navy, new developments in computer printout typography, computer maintenance of parts lists, and use of card-and-camera record systems to permit rapid searching, retrieval and reproduction systems in Navy facilities.","PeriodicalId":118434,"journal":{"name":"IRE Transactions on Engineering Writing and Speech","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1960-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128764054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Technical journalism and the business press","authors":"J. Girdwood","doi":"10.1109/TEWS.1960.6590863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEWS.1960.6590863","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the aims of business publications in the electronics engineering field, and their obligations to readers and to the electronics industry. It also discusses the obligations of engineers to disseminate information quickly and accurately. Engineers who wish to write for the business press should consider the nature of the “publication image” of the magazine, the best approach to set forth the findings, and the appropriate style of writing for a given readership.","PeriodicalId":118434,"journal":{"name":"IRE Transactions on Engineering Writing and Speech","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1960-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128593540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Language as an engineering tool — Front preparation to results","authors":"J. R. Gould","doi":"10.1109/TEWS.1960.6590864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEWS.1960.6590864","url":null,"abstract":"In an analysis of the use of language as an engineering tool, the writing problem is divided into three phases: the preparation, the act of writing, and the results achieved. Questions of empathy for the reader, writing style for effective expression, and organization for clarity are discussed. Some criteria are given for mature, professional prose and for measuring the effectiveness of engineering literature.","PeriodicalId":118434,"journal":{"name":"IRE Transactions on Engineering Writing and Speech","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1960-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133960400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Background to scientific communication","authors":"M. M. Kessler","doi":"10.1109/TEWS.1960.6590860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEWS.1960.6590860","url":null,"abstract":"The need for more efficient communication of engineering and scientific information is traced to the increase in the number and variety of people who have the need to know. The change in the position of science from a significant source of power to a major instrument of power makes the distribution of scientific information a matter of competitive necessity and logistics. It is stressed that we need a communications system that will satisfy the needs of the scientific community at large rather than isolated and specialized pockets of retrieval. An experimental system is suggested that will provide a realistic test facility for the evaluation of ideas and components. Some problem areas in need of research and invention are discussed.","PeriodicalId":118434,"journal":{"name":"IRE Transactions on Engineering Writing and Speech","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1960-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128638297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Space technology: Reporting the new dimension","authors":"R. Hohmann","doi":"10.1109/TEWS.1960.6590861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEWS.1960.6590861","url":null,"abstract":"Certain problems of technical writing have persisted throughout the entire development of science and engineering during the past 150 years. This paper describes the classic approach to effective report writing as used by the early scientists who laid the groundwork for our present space studies. Their techniques are recommended for use in scientific reporting in the space age.","PeriodicalId":118434,"journal":{"name":"IRE Transactions on Engineering Writing and Speech","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1960-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134462022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Review of the IRE-PGEWS","authors":"T. T. Patterson","doi":"10.1109/TEWS.1959.4322687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEWS.1959.4322687","url":null,"abstract":"It is suggested that the IRE Transactions on Engineering Writing and Speech (EWS) become the primary media for helping the EWS society's engineering members directly in improving the accurate transmission of their ideas. The symposia, on the other hand, should be aimed at exchanging ideas with others in the engineering publications field. The author feels the Professional Group on EWS (PGEWS)society should encourage local meetings at the Section level. The society should further establish liaison with the Professional Group on Education and with the Professional Group on Engineering Management to study our common problems.","PeriodicalId":118434,"journal":{"name":"IRE Transactions on Engineering Writing and Speech","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1959-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121966482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}