Friday, September 2, 2011

expert technical writer


This marks the difference between the expert technical writer and the amateur. "ACCURACY— TERSENESS— ACCURACY."

From Bulletin of the Technical and Engineering Society: Volumes 4-5 - Page 163
Colorado School of Mines. Technical and Engineering Society - 1908
Posted by Janet Egan at 4:30 PM

3 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 7, 2011 at 2:23 PM

    How do we define accuracy? And, terseness, for that matter.

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 7, 2011 at 2:28 PM

    Crisp, curt, pithy, succinct. I love "succinct"; it is a word with three consonants in a row. Semi-colon inside or outside the quote?

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