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Technical Writing

LibGuide to Technical Writing resources at Sims Memorial Library.

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

Encyclopedias

The Cutting Edge: An Encyclopedia of Advanced Technologies
--Reference Stacks-- T 9 .C96
Encyclopedia of Rhetoric
--Reference Stacks-- PN 172 .E52
Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition: Communication from Ancient Times to the Information Age
--Reference Stacks-- PN 172 .E53
An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology
--Reference Stacks-- T 15 .E53; also available online
Rhetoric and Kairos: Essays in History, Theory, and Praxis
--online-- EBSCOhost e-book

Dictionaries

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
--online-- EBSCOhost e-book
The Cyberspace Lexicon: An Illustrated Dictionary of Terms from Multimedia to Virtual Reality
--Reference Stacks-- QA 76.76 .I59 C675
A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
--Reference Stacks-- PN 41 .C83
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms
--Ready Reference-- Q 123 .M15 1994

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