Acknowledgements

This free, online technical writing textbook is published under a Creative Commons 4.0 license and is based to great extent on the work of Dr. David McMurrey, who graciously allowed adaptation of his free online text, Online Technical Writing, under a Creative Commons 4.0 license. You can access Dr. McMurrey’s original work at https://www.prismnet.com/~hcexres/textbook/. To view Dr. McMurrey’s biography, visit https://www.prismnet.com/~hcexres/index.html.

Content was also derived from Technical Writing by Annemarie Hamlin, Chris Rubio, and Michele DeSilva of Central Oregon Community College, and Megan Savage, Jodi Naas, Allison Gross, and Billy Merck of Portland Community College, whose online textbook can be accessed at https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/technicalwriting/. The authors generously licensed this Open Oregon textbook under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, allowing the material to be shared via open educational resources.

Additional resources include the Open Educational Resource online textbooks, Technical Writing Essentials by Susan Last, found at https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/technicalwriting/, and Communication for Business Professionals, by CampusOntario, found at https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/commbusprofcdn/.  Both volumes are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. (Disclosure: I had chosen the title for this online textbook well before encountering the work of Ms. Last, who has very good taste in titles.)

My sincere thanks and appreciation go to the OER Working Group and the library staff at SUNY Ulster Community College in Stone Ridge, New York, particularly Kari Mack and Marla Gruner, whose support and guidance helped make this free resource possible. Heartfelt gratitude goes also to librarians and educators everywhere who support and contribute to Open Educational Resources under a Creative Commons license, thus offering free and equal access to their work to students and educators around the globe.

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