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A Math-Based Writing System for EngineersSimplify and Clarify

A Math-Based Writing System for Engineers: Simplify and Clarify [The engineering writer’s first order of business regarding sentence-level quality control is to make certain that every sentence is concise and clear. This book calls the process simplify and clarify. This chapter reviews four specific techniques for eliminating words and phrasing that unnecessarily complicate and obfuscate a sentence’s intended meaning. Figure 10.1 displays those techniques (OFIs #1 through #4) on sentence optimization’s 20 OFI wheel.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Math-Based Writing System for EngineersSimplify and Clarify

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-10754-3
Pages
145 –153
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-10756-7_10
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[The engineering writer’s first order of business regarding sentence-level quality control is to make certain that every sentence is concise and clear. This book calls the process simplify and clarify. This chapter reviews four specific techniques for eliminating words and phrasing that unnecessarily complicate and obfuscate a sentence’s intended meaning. Figure 10.1 displays those techniques (OFIs #1 through #4) on sentence optimization’s 20 OFI wheel.]

Published: Oct 1, 2019

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