Found inside – Page 444Persuasive Writing A proposal should be objective and unemotional , yet positive in tone . A well - written proposal also includes and honestly describes all information . An overly enthusiastic writer may tend to color the language and content ... Found inside – Page 117Technical reviews tend to be the most formal and impersonal: They may be almost indistinguishable ... spelling out findings in plain, unemotional language. Found inside – Page 3The language should be precise and unemotional, transparent so that one sees ... In short the writing is technical and usually interests only experts. Found inside – Page 98He also is a graduate of the Technical Writers Institute , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute . Prior to ... EXPERIENCE facts ideas LANGUAGE READER WRITER the reader , to persuade him or to direct him ? ... Be factual , but not unemotional . Found inside... brief but thorough information on meeting the needs of technical communication . It discusses letters , résumés , journal articles , and even user's manuals . It describes how to use clear , precise , unambiguous , and unemotional language ... Found inside – Page 259 While the line between technical and non-technical writing can be ... Non-technical writing may employ colorful imagery and emotionally charged language. Found inside – Page 98use spoken or written language , among themselves , to pursue some common ... in which some technical language , interests and goals are also shared . Found inside – Page 12... occasional lay reader who has a wide acquaintance with the concepts and language of certain branches of science . Technical terms such as " the Rayleigh scattering theory ” and “ the Chappuis band of ozone ” mean little if anything to the average ... The tone of the passage is terse , unemotional , objective , and formal . This book examines the ways that writing is taught in this age of technology. The book begins with writing about "tools" (technical writing), considers writing itself as a tool, and concludes with tools that aid writing. Found insideWriting. PHILIP M. SHAW Academic discourse (the language, organization, and rhetoric of academic ... which include business, legal, and technical discourse. Found inside – Page 289The public , to judge from the question , except on some such foundation , language of the technical writers , had it in and in any event the current note must be bundles , and the banks had it in bales . paid when due . Otherwise , he said , the ... Found inside – Page 1365 ) Technical writing is expected to be objective , scientifically impartial , utterly clear , and unemotional . ... 1 ) Because the focus is on an object or a process , the language is utilitarian , emphasizing exactness rather than elegance . Found inside – Page 592We also forget that the written word is flat communication ) is to use a language the receiver will and unemotional and ... Those with a technical helps to interpret the message or to make corrections background and computer people seem to ... Found inside – Page 195The language of this passage is extremely technical. ... Since the language is unemotional, the author's intention is probably just to convey information. By writing with a straightforward style, the author is able to accomplish this purpose. Found inside – Page 326It differs from formal in that it is frequently more stiff , perhaps because its users often are less familiar with language than with litmus . It differs also in vocabulary , since technical writing generally demands numerous technical terms . It is factual , objective , unemotional . It may make considerable use of mathematical ... Found inside – Page 20Gunning says , " Technical writers start with an advantage . Their basic material is ... The best technical writing is being done by persons at the top of their professions ... They tended to use polysyllabic words , words taken from other languages . ... Simply , the theory is cold , unemotional copy is written in polysyllabic words ... warm , human copy is monosyllabic ... sophisticated copy is a rhythmic mixture . Found inside – Page 27This sort of descriptive , emotional language is noticeably absent in the article written for his fellow psychologists . In the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology , Milgram's writing is straightforward and emotionless , presenting the facts ... Found inside – Page 6Corollary: Time spent including writing in your instruction is not time that you ... You want unemotional language, heavy with content area terminology. Found insideWriting. As you might assume, the difference between technical and ... some academic planners may find the language overly personal or subjective. Found inside – Page 22Abstract - Obscure language and verbiage can destroy the usefulness of a technical report . A balance ... unemotional person , but in writing about his work the engineer seems bound up , so tangled in obscure language as to be unintelligible . Found inside – Page 124Technical reviews tend to be the most formal and impersonal: They may be almost indistinguishable from reports, describing their findings in plain, unemotional language. Such a style gives the impression of ... When the writer has a more direct stake in the work — as is typical in restaurant or movie reviews, for example — the style moves more decisively toward the middle. Even though a reviewer may ... Found inside – Page 36hapter 1 showed how audience is a major concern in technical communication. Every piece of writing has an intended audience—the intended reader or readers ... Found inside – Page 117Technical reviews tend to be the most formal and impersonal: They may be almost indistinguishable ... spelling out findings in plain, unemotional language. Found inside – Page 150Technical communication is defined as ' unlike either creative or expository expression in that it must be based on fact . It requires clear , precise , unambiguous , unemotional , and sometimes nonjudgmental language . ' Nevertheless , the ... Found inside – Page 43The language should be precise and unemotional, transparent so that one sees ... In short, the writing is technical and usually interests only the experts. Found inside – Page 14Yates (1989) then traces the rise of professional communication to management's ... "clear," and "unemotional" were used to describe technical writing (p. Found inside – Page 61... we have been aware that speci®c purpose talk and writing is not the unemotional, dry, ... language/dialect target or native), and register technical or ... Found inside – Page 204It would be a language shaped among whose perverse characteristics is one which might to be a tool , not an end in itself , a means of comwell be emulated by writers of technical papers . municating unemotional , objective facts ... Found inside – Page 16Good technical writing has nothing to hide ; it readily distinguishes between what is known and what is surmised . ... Restraint Good technical writing is unemotional and unadorned . It avoids ... is well , therefore , to use the simplest language . Found inside – Page 343In addition , Franklin's plain style and common , unemotional language permits use of aphorism , which further enforces the ethos he wants for his person . Notice the aphorism ( in italics ) which concludes the following description : I have been ... Found inside – Page 42Language and clarity When you write the final draft of your essay, you'll need to be ... Academic writing is logical and unemotional, factual and precise. Found inside – Page 186It is useful to illustrate differences between technical writing and creative or expository writing in order to distance the student from an ... We emphasize that , in contrast to creative or expository writing , technical writing must be clear , precise , and ( usually ) unemotional . ... seven goals of language in technical writing [ 9 ] : precision , clarity , forthrightness , familiarity , conciseness , fluidity , and imagery . Found inside – Page 22As a rule most technical communication calls for photographic descriptions . They are preferred because ... descriptions sound that way . You can use plain , simple , unemotional language to make a description sound like 22 Getting the Basics. Found inside... or technical style, we think of scientific or technical writing as typically dense, flat, and unemotional, precisely the opposite of rhetorical. Found inside – Page 69Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 7, ... Because research should be reported in an objective, unemotional way, with superb accuracy and ... Found inside – Page 125Best known are the works of authors writing in a clear and unemotional language which translates easily , such as ... He made his debut with three short novels about the technical intelligentsia ; their theme is that of the ' reduced activity of ... Found inside – Page 1120On the other hand , Earl L. Dachslager , writing in the Houston Chronicle ... criticized for its unemotional , technical language , Schulman's LeClerc seems ... Found inside – Page 30Each from complex audience , technical , or organizational concerns ... this approach . call for language that is impartial , objective , unemotional ... Found inside – Page 26Communications , Book Reviews 0.2 06 RADIATION INTENSITY ( Watis tem , 120 Semantics in Report Writing ... and rather unemotional , it is never entirely divorced from the inherent defects of language . Because of the limitations of language , there is no foolproof set of rules for achieving clarity in technical writing . Found inside – Page 80The unemotional language and minimal material on literary activities , plus the fact that the Chronicle drew some inspiration from Ginzburg's White Book that included numerous essays by technical intellectuals , indicates that scientists are ... Found insideUse unemotional, neutral language. Focus on things that others can do ... After four to five weeks they have a dress rehearsal and a technical rehearsal. Found inside – Page 44not reflect the material means of written language but only register by graphical means ... for purely technical reasons, a richer inventory of the marked, ... Found inside – Page 475... developed " than articles written by their Russian counterparts , which are “ academic , ” and “ frozen ” in a narrow , unemotional style . ... In addition , they make the writer sound stuffy and imply that the reader should simply yield to whatever unnamed authority the writer brings up . ... For such audiences , you may have to speak not only in another language , but also in another voice , keeping your ... Found inside – Page 281CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD ; See emotive. emotionless adjective emotionless faces: ... be in tune with; be on the same wavelength as, talk the same language as; ... Found inside – Page 10Notice the precise wording that is designed to produce a professional , unemotional response : 1. The ICU ... The instructions , written in plain , objective language , focus the reader's attention only on the act of saving a life . Clear Organization Technical writing is clearly organized , which makes 10 1 / TECHNICAL WRITING. Found inside – Page 116Beyond these technical requirements, Supreme Court justices also want to see ... that use unemotional language (Black et al 2016a) and readable writing ... 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