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Marder, Daniel – 1980
A useful device in revising technical reports is the metaphor of entropy, which refers to the amount of disorder that is present in a system. Applied to communication theory, high entropy would correspond to increased amounts of unfamiliar or useless information in a text. Since entropy in rhetorical systems increases with the unfamiliarity of…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Discourse Analysis, Editing, Evaluation
