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Technical Writing Style Vocab
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1. Spell check

2. Be brief and to the point - use active voice - avoid redundancy

3. Three or more nouns together can slow reading. To fix: break these long noun phrases up by adding in articles or prepositions.

4. This style error occurs when the person or entity performing the action is not in the subject position of the sentence. To fix: move the actor (what performs the action) to the subject position in the sentence.

5. The mistaken view that there are only 2 possible solutions to a problem.

6. A conclusion based on a sample size that is too small or limited.

7. Based on opinions.

8. When sentences are not tied together using the old/new information principle. To fix: New information comes at the end of a sentence to introduce the new idea. Once a writer has introduced the new info - then it becomes old information and is availab

9. A tangential issue that is addressed in order to distract the readers from the main problem

10. Consider the needs of the reader

11. Have someone else read your document

12. Based on facts - not opinions.

13. Use personal pronouns

14. To base a conclusion on a piece of information that is essentially a restatement of the conclusion or to ignore flaws in a core piece of information.

15. A series of actions - a list of several things - a bullet list for example - or a sentence that is divided into two parts - in these cases when a main verb control several phrases that follow it - each of those phrases has to be set up in the same w

16. Are built when a watered down or misrepresented version of one side is described and then attacked.

17. Assumes a chain of events will happen - even thought the evidence does not support the entire chain.

18. A verb acting as a noun and hiding the main action of the sentence. Find all the nouns in a sentence - then see if they could be verbs - if they can - they are nominalizations. Use common sense to change all the nominalizations you can without changi

19. Assumes a casual relationship between 2 events.

20. This issue makes sentences more difficult to read for the average person. Anytime a writer places words between the subject and the verb - the writer is slowing the action of the sentence. Use sparingly and only when necessary. Subject/Verb Separatio

21. To draw a conclusion that is more extreme than the evidence supports

22. The extent to which the elements of a document develop a shared idea.

23. Page layout - make headings larger than body text - use highlighting techniques

24. Technical information that your readers are unfamiliar with should come at the end of sentences. Sentences that open with unfamiliar technical terms slow readers.

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