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Academic and technical writing are far different than literary writing, such as novels and poetry. The primary purpose of academic and technical writing is to provide information about a defined topic to a specific audience. Whether you write graduate papers, professional journal articles, dissertations, white papers, manuals, websites, reviews, or similar documents, you are writing academic or technical documents.
Academic and technical writing can be bad writing. They can…
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Added by David Bowman on February 8, 2014 at 1:06am —
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Every well-written paragraph needs three parts: context, content, and conclusion. These three parts are known collectively as the 3 Cs. When you use the 3 Cs, you present information logically, you help the reader understand your message, and you demonstrate the relevance of your idea.
Context. The first sentence…
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Added by David Bowman on April 3, 2012 at 11:26pm —
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An expert academic or technical writer needs only a few basic sentence patterns to produce easy-to-understand writing. Each of the sentence patterns below will result in clear academic or technical writing. However, do not use any one pattern more than twice in a row to prevent the writing from sounding repetitive and boring. Also,…
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Added by David Bowman on March 28, 2012 at 10:01pm —
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Writing style comprises four characteristics:
1. Formality
2. Language complexity
3. Objectivity, and
4. Information depth.
The purpose you are trying to accomplish, the readers’ needs, your relationship with the reader, and the type of document affect the style in which you…
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Added by David Bowman on December 10, 2011 at 12:36am —
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