What Can Technical Writers Learn from Good Conversation?.

Plumb, Carolyn

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ERIC Number: EJ413114

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Publication Date: 1990

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What Can Technical Writers Learn from Good Conversation?

Plumb, Carolyn

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, v20 n2 p201-09 1990

Suggests that technical writers should emphasize similarities rather than differences between oral and written discourse. Argues that implicit rules of conversation have much to offer the technical writer. Illustrates how the principles of conversation can be applied to the process of writing instructions. (KEH)

Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Discourse Modes, Interpersonal Communication, Rhetorical Theory, Speech Communication, Technical Writing, Writing Instruction, Writing Processes

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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