DocumentCode
3343291
Title
A workshop on idioms and technical writing
Author
Deming, Lynn ; Myers, Barbara
Author_Institution
Dept. of Humanities, New Mexico Inst. of Min. & Technol., Socorro, NM, USA
fYear
1988
fDate
5-7 Oct 1988
Firstpage
369
Lastpage
370
Abstract
A workshop is described that is intended to help English-language technical writers and editors identify and remove from their technical prose idioms and other expressions that are not literal. The workshop procedures include the identification and rewriting of idioms in technical-prose samples
Keywords
educational courses; technical presentation; English-language technical writers; editors; idioms; technical writing;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Professional Communication Conference, 1988. IPCC '88 Conference Record. On the Edge: A Pacific Rim Conference on Professional Technical Communication., International
Conference_Location
Seattle, WA
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IPCC.1988.24069
Filename
24069
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