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| Revision (Written Composition) | 1 |
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| Industrial Education | 1 |
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| Smith, Howard (Bud) | 1 |
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Smith, Howard (Bud) – Industrial Education, 1982
The author explores problems in technical writing, the editor's role, and the author-editor relationship. He presents a list of basic writing rules to help the technical writer achieve success. These involve subject matter, deadlines, purpose, topic sentences, arrangement, clarity, idea development, examples, vocabulary, reading level, and…
Descriptors: Editing, Readability, Revision (Written Composition), Technical Writing
