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imperative: SHALL or WILL vs SHOULD
continuance: as follows, as shown in the list below
directive: see figure x, as shown in the graph below
(for spec writing)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Sharman [SMTP:psharman -at- verity -dot- com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 11:51 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: imperative/continuance/directive (was: Tech Writer screening
> questions)
>
> All right, I'll bite. What is an "imperative", "continuance", and
> "directive"? I've never heard these terms before and they aren't in my
> dictionary (at least, not in the sense that I believe they are being used
> here). Where are these terms used? Are they from rhetoric theory? They
> aren't grammar terms that I'm familiar with (although I grew up overseas
> so
> I may know them by another name).
>
> For the moment, let's disregard the question of whether these are good
> screening questions ... I just want to have my curiosity satisfied.
>
> Thanks,
> Philip.
>
