This is a course in technical English for science and technology students. Itmay also prove helpful to writers and translators in this area. The book dealswith such topics as paragraph-writing and linking, technical vocabulary,impersonal style, précis and report-writing. There are two special features:linguistic rules and structures are presented in terms of symbols easilyaccessible to the students and the material selected for examples and exerciseis from the variety of English which is actually employed in the field ofscience and technology.