DocumentCode
822936
Title
Engineering style: striving for efficiency
Author
Campbell, Charles P.
Author_Institution
Humanities Dept., New Mexico Inst. of Min. & Technol., Socorro, NM, USA
Volume
35
Issue
3
fYear
1992
fDate
9/1/1992 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
130
Lastpage
137
Abstract
Strategies for improving stylistic efficiency of technical writing are presented. The strategies, in contrast to the myriad of advice on how to improve sentence style, create sentence flow and give the prose a character that propels readers along. Improvements in stylistic efficiency come from aligning word order with readers´ expectations so as to restrict the reader´s interpretive latitude
Keywords
technical presentation; engineering text composition; sentence style; technical writing; Books; Instruments; Libraries; NASA; Propulsion; Rhetoric; Shock waves; Software; Terminology; Writing;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Professional Communication, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0361-1434
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/47.158977
Filename
158977
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