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McCullough, Robert A.; And Others – 1982
This report presents the results of a review and evaluation of the Langley Research Center's scientific and technical information program, which examined technical reports from various institutions and organizations to determine the organization of reports, the language used to convey information, and the methods used to present information.…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Editing, Language Styles, Layout (Publications)
Marder, Daniel – 1980
A useful device in revising technical reports is the metaphor of entropy, which refers to the amount of disorder that is present in a system. Applied to communication theory, high entropy would correspond to increased amounts of unfamiliar or useless information in a text. Since entropy in rhetorical systems increases with the unfamiliarity of…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Discourse Analysis, Editing, Evaluation
