📚 Technical Writing

Books with technical writing on their catalogue record, first published between 1753 and 2015, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject technical writing in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 2,386 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Grammar of Science	Karl Pearson	1892	21
	Technical writing	Sharon J. Gerson	1992	14
	Technical Communication	John M. Lannon	2000	14
	Technical Communication	John M. Lannon	2007	13
	Becoming a Writing Researcher	Ann M. Blakeslee	2007	13
	Technical writing	Diana C. Reep	1991	12
	Good style	John Kirkman	1992	12
	Technical writing	William S. Pfeiffer	1991	11
	Writing scientific research articles	Margaret Cargill	2009	11
	Reporting technical information	Kenneth W. Houp	1968	9
	A guide to technical writing	William George Crouch	1948	8
	A short guide to writing about biology	Jan A. Pechenik	1987	8
	Coherence, Continuity, and Cohesion	Kim Sydow Campbell	1994	8
	Dissertation research and writing for construction students	S. G. Naoum	1998	8
	Technically--write!	Ron Blicq	1972	7
	Writing Successfully in Science	Maeve O'Connor	1991	7
	Handbook of technical writing	Gerald J. Alred	1992	7
	Strategies for Technical Communication in the Workplace	Laura J. Gurak	2010	7
	Modern technical writing	Theodore Allison Sherman	1955	6
	Technical report writing	James W. Souther	1957	6
	Basic technical writing	Herman M. Weisman	1962	6
	Writing papers in the biological sciences	Victoria E. McMillan	1988	6
	Technical communication	Michael H. Markel	1996	6
	Technical Writing for Dummies	Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts	2001	6
	The Best American Science Writing 2002	Matt Ridley	2002	6
	Developing quality technical information	Gretchen Hargis	2004	6
	The essentials of technical communication	Elizabeth Tebeaux	2010	6
	Practical Strategies for Technical Communication	Mike Markel	2015	6
	Scientific and technical writing today	William Magrino	1753	5
	Composition for technical students	Joseph David Thomas	1949	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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