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Peer reviewedAllison, Nancy – Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication, 1994
Discusses the purposes served by visual elements in a document, and notes some conventions that have been dropped in the last few years in an attempt to eliminate clutter. (SR)
Descriptors: Design, Higher Education, Technical Writing, Writing Improvement
Peer reviewedAllison, Nancy – Technical Communication, 1992
Discusses the overuse of capital letters in technical writing. (SR)
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), Editing, Technical Writing, Writing Improvement
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 problems in a piece of technical writing which is very well written but has extra words and overly long sentences. (SR)
Descriptors: Editing, Grammar, Revision (Written Composition), Technical Writing
