Engineering Thought with Microsoft Word - Techniques for Writing Nonfiction Books and Papers (Paperback)

Need to create long documents within Microsoft Word? Learn to harness the power of this popular writing software to create your long documents while avoiding its headaches. Engineering Thought with Microsoft Word will teach you new ways to use its visual tools as writing aids to speed drafting and boost productivity. Filled with industrial-strength techniques, you will learn to: make paragraph styles work in ways that help you think clearly, write effectively, and publish professionally; gain control over documents using paragraph styles and outlining features; use tables of contents as brainstorming tools; improve productivity using several drafting strategies; write with character styles to draft with power; write with proven paragraph structures used by today s best writers and create these structures in Word; edit quickly using never before seen editing tips and techniques; use built-in grid features to polish the layout of your documents; set up a document to look like a published book and see how this affects your thinking and writing; design and write your book for maximum impact. If you currently write your long documents in Microsoft Word, after reading this book, you will never write the same way again. Also included is access to download a free writer's kit containing free document templates and SqueakyClean, a plug-in for Word that automates these drafting techniques and enhances writing.