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Myers, Marshall – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 1999
Investigates how the purpose of three types of business and technical documents (instructions, annual reports, and sales promotional letters) affects the syntactical and rhetorical choices authors make in writing these documents. Outlines partial syntactical and rhetorical "fingerprints" of these documents to offer students norms they can go by in…
Descriptors: Grammar, Higher Education, Persuasive Discourse, Rhetoric