• DocumentCode
    1548250
  • Title

    An essay on misused words: Sophisticated and elegant

  • Author

    Woolsey, G.

  • Author_Institution
    Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1979
  • Firstpage
    170
  • Lastpage
    171
  • Abstract
    A trendy comment, intended to be a put-down, is to label someone´s idea, model, or theory as `unsophisticated´. Recourse to a standard dictionary shows that `unsophisticated´ is not a bad thing to be, and that `elegance´ is also desirable.
  • Keywords
    technical presentation; misused words; technical presentation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Professional Communication, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0361-1434
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TPC.1979.6501744
  • Filename
    6501744
    • Link To Document
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