Chapter 27 Written and Oral Communication

Throughout your career as an engineer, chances are that you will draw on your skills in oral and written communication far more often than you ever imagined. Engineers report that they spend most of their time using some combination of the four communication skills: writing, speaking, reading, and listening [1]. The situation is the same for most engineering students, although their education is apt to have given them far more opportunity to read and to listen than to write and to speak.

Technical writing and oral presentation skills are particularly important to the design engineer. After all, the final product of a design project is generally an oral or written report (and sometimes both). Furthermore, ...

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