Title :
Engineering style: striving for efficiency
Author :
Campbell, Charles P.
Author_Institution :
Humanities Dept., New Mexico Inst. of Min. & Technol., Socorro, NM, USA
fDate :
9/1/1992 12:00:00 AM
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;
Journal_Title :
Professional Communication, IEEE Transactions on
