Documentation Help Needed for tech writing classes

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Professor,
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Don K Pierstorff
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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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