IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
Mar 1983
Lead your ACE: Accuracy, clarity, and effectiveness in technical writing
Jim Corey
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Abstract
Accuracy, clarity, and efffectiveness are basic qualities of good technical writing. If there is conflict in accommodating all three simultaneously, or when stylistic choices are being considered, writers should not sacrifice accuracy for clarity nor accuracy and clarity for effectiveness. The priority of accommodation is accuracy, clarity, effectiveness: ACE.
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- IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
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- 1983-03-01
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- 10.1109/tpc.1983.6448654
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