Offers a practical, step-by-step guide to scientific writing

Presents an indispensable, clear and comprehensibly written guideline for students as well as a useful reference for experienced scientists

New edition focusses only on electronic reports and the needs of the electronic world

Includes a chapter on oral presentations

Dr. Heike Hering has a private teaching institute in Hannover and has been a lecturer at the Hochschule Hannover - University of Applied Sciences and Arts as well as FH Aachen for many years. She has written and translated software manuals for a CAD company in German and English and was safety engineer for 9 years. Thereafter she has worked at the TÜV NORD Academy in Hannover for 18 years and has developed e-learning programs, took part in software projects and worked as safety engineer.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus-Geert Heyne represented the fields of communication, combustion engines and statics at the Hochschule RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Rüsselsheim.

The 2nd edition was fundamentally changed and adopted to be displayed not only in book form, but also on all kinds of electronic devices. The following sections have been reduced or skipped: Tables, Scheme and diagram, Perspective drawing, Technical drawing and bill of materials, Pictorial re-arrangement of text, Copyright and copyright laws, Details about text accentuation, Automatic creation of indexes, tables, lists, labels and cross-references, Creating slides with presentation graphics programs.