There are almost as many textbooks on technical and business communication as there are tales of love. The themes of most texts are the same. What sets Strategies for business and technical writing slightly apart is some of the nuggets it contains: a few new insights here and there among the well-known topics and treatments found in most textbooks. Perhaps this is why Harty chose a different author for each of the 32 chapters. Those chapters are culled from previous writings: classic textbooks, journal articles, and published reports. In the end, such an approach becomes a matter of judgment that can fall anywhere between things that bump in the night and a brilliant synthesis in which one part illuminates another. Let's see where Strategies falls on this continuum.
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