A Math-Based Writing System for Engineers Sentence Algebra & Documen
This book presents the generative rules for formal written communication, in an engineering context, through the lens of mathematics. Aimed at engineering students headed for careers in industry and professionals needing a “just in time” writing reso
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A Math-Based Writing System for Engineers Sentence Algebra & Document Algorithms
A Math-Based Writing System for Engineers
Brad Henderson
A Math-Based Writing System for Engineers Sentence Algebra & Document Algorithms
Brad Henderson University of California, Davis Davis, CA, USA
ISBN 978-3-030-10754-3 ISBN 978-3-030-10756-7 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10756-7
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for my father, Professor Jerald M. “Jerry” Henderson, Ph.D., P.E., who once told me, “With a degree in engineering, you can go on in life to accomplish almost anything your mind and heart desire.”
Preface
My first exposure to engineering writing being taught by an engineer—within the context of technical content and culture and with fervent maverick passion—was at the University of California, Irvine, several decades ago. I had earned my B.S. in mechanical engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, worked as a design engineer in the burgeoning aerospace industry of the early 1980s, and experienced a moment of “enlightenment” which invited me to exit the corporate world and embrace a pent-up bohemian desire to become a famous novelist. I pursued a graduate degree in creative writing from University of Southern California and worked furiously on several novels destined (I thought) for publication by a big New York publisher and critical acclaim. Eventually, I had another giant epiphany: fame and fortune as a novelist wasn’t anywhere in sight, and I needed an actual job that paid the bills. That’s when a friend of a friend told me there was a professor at UC Irvine who was looking for an engineer
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