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Peer reviewedGraves, Heather Brodie; Graves, Roger – Technical Communication Quarterly, 1998
Explores how some contemporary language usage presents challenges for technical editing and how awareness of language theory can help students expand their context for (and critically assess) current editing textbook advice on language choice. Discusses what editors and teachers of editing can do to help produce technical documents that address…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Descriptive Linguistics, Editing, Higher Education
Grunig, James E.; And Others – 1983
Noting that although a great deal of empirical research has been done to investigate the writing rules commonly taught, this paper points out that no one has yet constructed a deep theory of the relationship between cognition and writing that confirms the writing rules and explains how they work. The paper then uses theories and research in the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Epistemology, Language Processing, Language Usage
