Documentation Help Needed for tech writing classes

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Professor, 
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Don K Pierstorff 
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Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa CA 
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On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 01:00:44 EDT MalcolmA0 at aol.com
<mailto: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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