The MIT Guide to Science and Engineering Communication

This is one of those rare US contributions that is able to cross the Atlantic and be readily understood by British readers. I am sure, however, that this is not through luck but more through the authors’ expertise in communication skills. I could find no area of this volume that was not universally relevant. Paradis and Zimmerman teach communication to engineering and science “majors” at the University of California (Santa Barbara) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and have written an excellent, concise and highly current guide to communication in these two subject areas; in fact, most of...