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1、ImprovingyourTechnicalWritingSkillsVersion5.222February2010NormanFentonSchoolofElectronicEngineeringandComputerScienceQueenMary(UniversityofLondon)LondonE14NSnorman@dcs.qmul.ac.ukwww.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/~norman/Tel:02078827860AbstractThisdocumentdescribesthebasicprinciplesofgoodwriting.Itisprimarily
2、targetedatstudentsandresearcherswritingtechnicalandbusinessreports,buttheprinciplesarerelevanttoanyformofwriting,includinglettersandmemos.Therefore,thedocumentcontainsvaluablelessonsforanybodywishingtoimprovetheirwritingskills.Theideasdescribedhereare,apartfromfairlyminorexceptions,notoriginal.
3、TheyaredrawnfromarangeofexcellentbooksandhavealsobeeninfluencedbyvariousoutstandingauthorsIhaveworkedwith.Thus,theapproachrepresentsakindofmodernconsensus.ThisapproachisverydifferenttothestylethatwaspromotedbythetraditionalEnglishschools’system,whichencouragedstudentstowriteinanunnecessarilycom
4、plexandformalway.Theapproachdescribedhereemphasisessimplicity(‘plainEnglish’)andinformality.Forexample,itencouragesshortersentencesanduseofthesimplestwordsandphrasespossible.Itexplainshowyoucanachievesimplicitybyusingtheactiveratherthanthepassivestyle,personalratherthanimpersonalstyle,andbyavoi
5、dingnounconstructsinfavourofverbs.Crucially,thisapproachleadstobetterreportsbecausetheyaremucheasiertoreadandunderstand.Fenton:ImprovingyourtechnicalwritingVersion5.2DocumentchangehistoryVersion1.0,11September2000:DerivedfromNormanFenton’s‘GoodWriting’webpages.Version2.0,21September2001.Minorch
6、angesincludingadditionofstudentprojectguidelines.Version2.1,20September2002.Minorcorrectionsmade.Version3.0,14September2003.Majorrevision.Version4.0,23September2003.Restructuringandediting.Version4.1,25September2003.Varioustyposfixedandpolemicremoved.Version5.0,18September2007:Generaltidy-up.22
7、February2010Page2/33Fenton:ImprovingyourtechnicalwritingVersion5.2Tableofcontents1.INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................................42.BEFOREYOUS
