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Peer reviewedAllison, Nancy – Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication, 1993
Discusses kinds of jargon found in technical writing, how much jargon is acceptable, and the best way to handle jargon. (SR)
Descriptors: Jargon, Language Usage, Technical Writing, Writing Improvement
Peer reviewedAllison, Nancy – Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication, 1994
Discusses the difference between a complex sentence and a compound sentence, and how they are used in technical writing and in Victorian fiction. (SR)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Usage, Sentence Structure, Technical Writing
Peer reviewedAllison, Nancy – Technical Communication, 1993
Discusses the use of "there is" and "there are," and recommends notional agreement (agreement of a verb with its subject or of a pronoun with its antecedent in accordance with the notion of number rather than with the presence of an overt grammatical marker for that notion) as a useful approach to deciding which to use. (SR)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Usage, Technical Writing, Writing Improvement
