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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/IPCC.1988.24069
