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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