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Kirkman, John
Good style :
writing for science and technology /
John Kirkman.
2nd ed.
London :
Routledge,
2005.
viii, 151 p. ;
24 cm.
1. Style as choice
2. Sentence length and complexity
3. Weight and familiarity of vocabulary
4. Specialist vocabulary: jargon
5. 'Fashionable' words
6. 'Roundabout' and unusual phrasing
7. Excessive pre-modifiers
8. Use of nouns as pre-modifiers
9. Abstraction
10. Excessive 'nominalization'
11. Verbs: tense and voice
12. Verbs: impersonal vs first-person constructions
13. Verbs: impersonal vs second-person constructions
14. Punctuation
15. Tone: in hard copy and in on-screen text
16. Avoiding 'distorted' English in computer-related texts
17. Style for instructions
18. Style for descriptive and explanatory writing
19. Specifications
20. Style for correspondence
21. Writing for international audiences: general policy
22. Writing for international audiences: writing for 'expert' readers
23. Writing for international audiences: writing for students
24. Writing for readers who do not understand English
25. On avoiding ambiguity
Technical writing.
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BOOKS
(Alfred John)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book explains the tactics you can use to write technical material - ranging from reports to manuals - in a coherent, readable style. The author discusses in detail choices of vocabulary, phrasing and sentence structure; each piece of advice is.
Table of contents
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0419/2004014652.html
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