IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication Jan 1992

Engineering style: striving for efficiency

C.P. Campbell New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

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. >

Journal
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
Published
1992-01-01
DOI
10.1109/47.158977
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Open Access
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technical communication
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Cited by in this index (1)

  1. Campbell (1995)
    Ethos: character and ethics in technical writing
    IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

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