Professional Communication in Engineering

摘要

So says one of the engineers in H. E. Sales' Professional Communication in Engineering, part of the Palgrave Studies in Professional and Organizational Discourse. An applied linguist working from an ethnographic tradition, Sales draws upon written text, spoken data, observations, and surveys in her 6-year study of British design engineers working on products for the aerospace, defense, and automotive industries. The book provides an often fascinating look at how engineers wrestle with the demands of their communication tasks, and the amount of data Sales compiles is both impressive and engaging.