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Download full textSoderston, Candace; German, Carol – 1984
Over the past several years, technical communicators have been struggling to change some of the stylistic traditions inherited from scientific discourse. Rhetoricians, writing teachers, and psychologists all agree that the use of analogy and first- or second-person sentence construction make for more effective communication than the absence of…
Descriptors: Analogy, Attitude Measures, Communication Research, Computer Software
