I purchased this book because my job requires me to generate technical reports and I am glad that I bought it. Before this book, I was using a very expensive technical writing manual that was too thick to carry around with me, but The Element of Technical Writing is quite different. The book is less than 200 pages long and it is very light. Don’t underestimate this book simply because of its minuscule size. The book is far more useful than some of the other expensive manuals on the market.