5Business Communications
5.1Introduction
In addition to writing documents that are particular to your technical discipline, you will have to prepare memos, nontechnical reports, agendas, meeting minutes, business plans, résumés, cover letters, and so forth. Most of the topics in this chapter are generic. For example, a good résumé follows the same principles regardless of your profession. Your preparation of standard business communications will be greatly enhanced, however, by understanding several fine points that are particular to the technical professional.
5.2Résumés
The résumé is perhaps the most personal of business communications. Your résumé and cover letter may be the two most important technical documents that you will ever ...
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