Ex.1-2:
What Are Bad?
Identify why the following examples of technical writing are bad.
Then, try to improve them by revising them.
- "This procedure enables users to document data fields described in master files that were
parsed and analyzed by the program dictionary."
− found in a software user's manual
- "In this book I have attempted
an accurate but at the same
time readable account of recent work
on the subject of how gene controls
operate, a large subject which is rapidly
acquiring a central position in the
biology of today and which will inevitably
become even more prominent
in the future, in the efforts of scientists
of numerous different specialists to explain
how a single organism can contain
cells of many different kinds developed
from a common origin."