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SENTENCE STRUCTURE OF
TECHNICAL WRITING
Karen Joyce Cabalang
Business Administration Student @SLAC
Spring, 2016
Lecture materials derived from The Craft of Scientific
Writing 息 Michael Alley and The Science of Scientific
Writing by Gopen and S wan
The fundamental purpose of scientific
discourse is not the mere presentation of
information and thought but rather its actual
communication. It does not matter how
pleased an author might be to have
converted all the right data into sentences
and paragraphs; it matters only whether a
large majority of the reading audience
accurately perceives what the author had in
mind.
--George Gopen and Judith Swan The
Science of Scientific Writing
GOOD TECH WRITERS PRACTICE
  Planning
  Clarity
  Brevity
  Simplicity
  Word Choice
  Active Voice
  Committing to Writing as a Process
Writing
Revising
Planning/
Rethinking
PLANNING: BEFORE YOU BEGIN
 Identify your audience and their expectations
 Know your purpose
 Know your material
 Understand the writing task at hand
 Organize your thoughts and materials
 Budget adequate time to write, review, revise and
edit
CLARITY: AVOID JARGON
 Jargon: a vocabulary particular to a place of work
(abbreviations, slang)
 Audience familiarity with the topic determines appropriate
use of jargon
Ex. 1: For the first year, the links with SDPC and
the HAC were not connected, and all required OCS
input data were artificially loaded. Thus CATCH22 and
MERWIN were not available.
Ex. 2: Because some of the links in the computer
system were not connected the first year, we could not
run all the software codes.
CLARITY: DEFINE THE UNFAMILIAR
 If you must abbreviate, define the term in its first
occurrence, and put abbreviations in parentheses.
Ex: Edgartown Great Pond (EGP) is a vital
body of water. Unfortunately, due to an
unpredictable influx of saltwater, the delicate
ecosystem is in danger of destabilizing.  Italicize
first occurrence of unfamiliar terms and define them
right away
Ex: Retina is a light-sensitive tissue, found
at the back of the eye, that converts light impulses
to nerve impulses.

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Sample 6 際際滷s For My Employer

  • 1. SENTENCE STRUCTURE OF TECHNICAL WRITING Karen Joyce Cabalang Business Administration Student @SLAC Spring, 2016 Lecture materials derived from The Craft of Scientific Writing 息 Michael Alley and The Science of Scientific Writing by Gopen and S wan
  • 2. The fundamental purpose of scientific discourse is not the mere presentation of information and thought but rather its actual communication. It does not matter how pleased an author might be to have converted all the right data into sentences and paragraphs; it matters only whether a large majority of the reading audience accurately perceives what the author had in mind. --George Gopen and Judith Swan The Science of Scientific Writing
  • 3. GOOD TECH WRITERS PRACTICE Planning Clarity Brevity Simplicity Word Choice Active Voice Committing to Writing as a Process Writing Revising Planning/ Rethinking
  • 4. PLANNING: BEFORE YOU BEGIN Identify your audience and their expectations Know your purpose Know your material Understand the writing task at hand Organize your thoughts and materials Budget adequate time to write, review, revise and edit
  • 5. CLARITY: AVOID JARGON Jargon: a vocabulary particular to a place of work (abbreviations, slang) Audience familiarity with the topic determines appropriate use of jargon Ex. 1: For the first year, the links with SDPC and the HAC were not connected, and all required OCS input data were artificially loaded. Thus CATCH22 and MERWIN were not available. Ex. 2: Because some of the links in the computer system were not connected the first year, we could not run all the software codes.
  • 6. CLARITY: DEFINE THE UNFAMILIAR If you must abbreviate, define the term in its first occurrence, and put abbreviations in parentheses. Ex: Edgartown Great Pond (EGP) is a vital body of water. Unfortunately, due to an unpredictable influx of saltwater, the delicate ecosystem is in danger of destabilizing. Italicize first occurrence of unfamiliar terms and define them right away Ex: Retina is a light-sensitive tissue, found at the back of the eye, that converts light impulses to nerve impulses.