Wed, Oct 02, 2024 9:55 AM in Technical Writing: Beyond Effect to Method
T. R. Girill Society for Technical Communication/Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab. (retired) [email protected]
Technical Writing: Beyond Effect to Method
A Revealing Distinction
When professional stage magicians teach apprentices new performance tricks, they always distinguish between the "effect" ("what the audience perceives...the trick as seen by spectators") and the &qu...
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Wed, Oct 02, 2024 9:53 AM in Technical Writing: Beyond Effect to Method
T. R. Girill Society for Technical Communication/Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab. (retired) [email protected]
Technical Writing: Beyond Effect to Method
A Revealing Distinction
When professional stage magicians teach apprentices new performance tricks, they always distinguish between the "effect" ("what the audience perceives...the trick as seen by spectators") and the &qu...
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Wed, Sep 04, 2024 9:51 AM in Technical Writing: Heeding the Science Words
T. R. Girill Society for Technical Communication/Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab. (retired) [email protected]
Technical Writing: Heeding the Science Words
One key way that science text--articles, reports, even safety documents--differs from literary or history prose is that is that science text features certain terms--"epistemic markers"--that uniquely signal that the intellectual work...
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