Documentation Help Needed for tech writing classes

[Voss, Daniel W]

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Professor,
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Don K Pierstorff
Professor of English and Technical Communication Emeritus
Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa CA
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On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 01:00:44 EDT MalcolmA0 at aol.com writes:

	Hi Traci,
	 
	I'm retired, but I have also used the US Printing Office Guide
and you might also consider the Chicago Manual of Style.  You might also
teach a few rules of your own.  I taught students to consider using the
following style variants:
	 
	USE OF THE AMPERSAND: Bill & Mary and John & Nancy will ... .
He took black & white photographs.
	 
	COMMAS IN COMPOUND SERIES: Most guide say dropping the comma
before and is both preferred and options, teach that a writer should
stick with a rule.  I use and taught the rule that if a compound element
contains more than one work, then use the comma, e.g.
	 
	The flag is red, white and blue.
	 
	BUT  The flag has seven red stripes, six white stripes, and a
blue field with white stars.
	 
	There are other rules like these and if one's goal is
communication then I think these make sense.
	 
	I also like to use numbering and bullets where
appropriate--perhaps more than some other writers.  I use numbers where
there is some ordinal relationship and bullets where there is not.
	 
	I'm also a big fan of tabular data.  The technical reader can
find what they are looking for often in a table where blocks of text
require more searching.
	 
	Those are my thoughts.
	 
	Andrew Malcolm, retired,
	Associate Professor of engineering English
	Rochester Institute of Technology
	 
	 
	 



	
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