• DocumentCode
    1359901
  • Title

    The gulf between correctness and understanding

  • Author

    Lufkin, J.

  • Author_Institution
    Honeywell Inc., Minneapolis, MN, USA
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1976
  • fDate
    3/1/1976 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    4
  • Lastpage
    6
  • Abstract
    The traditional preoccupation with `correctness´ and `clarity´ in technical writing frequently goes hand in hand with a neglect of the reader´s point of view which results in publications of such poor quality that instead of admiring them one should consider them unacceptable. Robert Pirsig´s `Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance´ includes an exploration of this problem and a reexamination of the relationship between `objectivity´ and quality.
  • Keywords
    information dissemination; correctness; objectivity; publications; technical writing; Art; Education; Maintenance engineering; Manuals; Motorcycles; Writing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Professional Communication, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0361-1434
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TPC.1976.6661210
  • Filename
    6661210
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1359901