Technical Communications for Scientists and Engineers

Communications basics for scientists and engineers.

Elliott, Celia M. University of Illinois. Presentations>Slideshows>Engineering

Technical Writing Rules You Didn't Learn in RHET 101  

To hyphenate or not to hyphenate, that is the question. As compound nouns evolve over time in Eng- lish, they gradually move from being written 'open' (data base) to being hyphenated (data-base) to being written 'closed' (database). Just where your particular word might be in its evolution is often un- clear and subject to the inscrutable and highly individual logic of copy editors. Consult a recent edition of a standard dictionary.

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Writing Numbers in Technical Documents  

A slideshow about representing numeric data within technical documents.

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