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Needed: A Revision of the Lowest Level of Editing.
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Nadziejka, David E. – Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication, 1995
Argues that most levels-of-editing systems focus on issues important to the technical editor at the expense of the issue most important to author and audience: technical content. Redesigns the lowest level of editing in order to better serve the author in the limited time available to produce a document. (SR)
Descriptors: Editing, Higher Education, Technical Writing, Writing Improvement
Trying to Be Precise, We Are Redundant.
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Nadziejka, David E. – Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication, 1994
Discusses three causes of redundancy in writing: lack of revision, attempts at precision, and conceptual confusion. (SR)
Descriptors: Language Usage, Redundancy, Technical Writing, Writing Improvement
Which Way Is Up? (Term Talk).
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Nadziejka, David E. – Technical Communication, 1993
Discusses the care required in constructing written explanations of numerical data. (SR)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Numbers, Technical Writing, Writing Improvement
Trying to Be Cautious, We Are Verbose (Term Talk).
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Nadziejka, David E. – Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication, 1994
Discusses how too much caution can lead authors to simple verbosity or to the overgeneralization of simple concepts. (SR)
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Writing Difficulties, Writing Improvement, Writing Processes
"And" or (and/or?) "Or"? (Term Talk).
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Nadziejka, David E. – Technical Communication, 1993
Discusses the use of "and" and "or" in technical writing. Suggests that the strict meanings of "and" and "or" are called for in technical writing much more than in ordinary prose. (SR)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Usage, Technical Writing, Writing Improvement
Term Talk.
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Nadziejka, David E. – Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication, 1993
Discusses briefly the author's frustrations in communicating scientific and technical concepts and communicating with those who write such technical material. (SR)
Descriptors: Editing, Revision (Written Composition), Technical Writing, Writing Difficulties
Trying to Be Impressive, We Are...(Term Talk).
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Nadziejka, David E. – Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication, 1994
Offers examples of what can happen when writers try to be impressive, and instead are vapid, grandiloquent, opaque, or absurd. (SR)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language Usage, Technical Writing, Writing Improvement