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Eng201 ch#7 Short Notes

1. The document discusses accuracy, clarity, conciseness, and coherence in technical writing. 2. Accuracy has three main aspects: document accuracy, stylistic accuracy, and technical accuracy. 3. Clarity can be increased through structural clarity, stylistic clarity, and contextual clarity. Clear writing involves simple, direct language and context to aid understanding.

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Eng201 ch#7 Short Notes

1. The document discusses accuracy, clarity, conciseness, and coherence in technical writing. 2. Accuracy has three main aspects: document accuracy, stylistic accuracy, and technical accuracy. 3. Clarity can be increased through structural clarity, stylistic clarity, and contextual clarity. Clear writing involves simple, direct language and context to aid understanding.

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Eng201 ch#7 Accuracy, Clarity, Conciseness and Coherence

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Accuracy:
Accuracy, which is the careful conforming to truth or fact, has three main aspects:1.
 
1. Document accuracy
2. Stylistic accuracy
3. Technical accuracy
Document accuracy:
Refers to the proper coverage of your topics in appropriate detail. Often an accurate
document needs to focus clearly on a problem.
Stylistic accuracy:
Concerns the careful use of language to express meaning. Accurate language requires the
careful use of paragraph and sentence structure and word choice to describe and analyze your
topics effectively. It is also a mater of using words precisely.
Technical accuracy:
Requires stylistic accuracy but is not based on solely on it. The effective document in science
and technology must be grounded in a technically accurate understanding and representation
of the subject.
Clarity:
Which refers to ease of understanding, is a special problem in technical and
professionalwriting? Specialized languages, mathematically detailed analyses and complex
conceptual schemes can make technical subjects hard to grasp even when prepared by skilled
writers and read by expert readers.
We can increase the clarity of our material in following ways. 
1. Structural clarity
2. Stylistic clarity
3. Contextual clarity
Structural clarity:
At the level of the whole document, you can promote structural clarity, making it easy forth
reader to get the large picture, use abstracts and other forecasting strategies such as
introductions that state the purpose and scope of the document.
Stylistic clarity:
Is promoted by simple, direct language. Simplicity in language is obtained with directly
worded sentences. Word choice is a factor in stylistic clarity.
Contextual clarity:
In which the importance. Authorization and implications of your word are made available,
also contributes to ease of understanding.
Conciseness:
Conciseness has a special value in technical fields. At the level of the whole document,
conciseness is helped most by focus, the narrowing of document scope to a manageable
problem and response.
Coherence:
Coherence is the quality of hanging together, of providing the reader an easily followed path.
Writers promote coherence by making their material logically and stylistically consistent, and
by organizing and expression their ideas in specific patterns.*paragraph development is
achieved partly through the specific strategies of
 
1. Exemplification
2. Analysis
3. Comparison and contrast
4. Definition
5. Enumeration
6. Description

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