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Product Description A true insider's guide to producing quality business reports quickly and successfully. The Quick White Paper offers the industrial researcher and engineer tools and insights for overcoming writer's block when it comes to passing the corporation's intellectual property to the next generation or making presentations to senior management. This book contains a series of adages that guide your mind set in writing, such as "Five minutes worth of thinking is worth five hours of writing" and "Success is inversely proportional to the thickness of the report." The Quick White Paper contains a writing template that focuses your writing effort to avoid you wasting time. This book also tells how write presentations and technical white papers all at the same time. From the Author I used the techniques in "The Quick White Paper" to write the first draft of roughly a four hundred page book on how to teach mathematics to adults ages 18 to 45 in six months in the middle of 1999. About the Author I retired after roughly twenty years experience in Technical Marketing at the E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. Inc. During the latter portion of my Du Pont tenure the company merged the Technical Marketing and End-use Research organizations in the Industrial Textile Division of the Textile Fibers Department which offered me the added opportunity to do research projects. My love of research and the need to maintain my Technical Marketing responsibilities became the catalyst for developing techniques to write internal technical reports quickly. One becomes very astute at developing trade presentations using someone else's data in Technical Marketing, but research requires you to generate this information in a usable form. Clearly Du Pont's action in merging the two groups blurred the line between research and marketing. It made great sense for Du Pont, considering that they were laden with scientists and engineers. But if one is increasing the load on one's employees, the logic