Abstract

Technical and scientific writing students can approximate professional style by determining the types and incidence of sentence openers in their own manuscripts. This article analyzes a variety of technical and scientific writing and suggests that students analyze their own writing in the same manner.

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Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
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1975-04-01
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10.2190/w2v6-u84t-xft7-mhud
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