RE: NASA's ancient guide to technical writing

Subject: RE: NASA's ancient guide to technical writing
From: "Cassandra Greer" <cassandra -at- greer -dot- de>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 19:43:36 +0100


Very cool Dan!

But everyone beware - the pdf is almost 3MB!

Happy (almost) New Year! (actually I am doing something other than checking
my techwr mail :)))

Cass :)

> Gabe Goldberg posted the following on the DCPubs list (forwarded from Ron
> Bean on the Risks Digest):
>
> > Ironically, the best antidote to PowerPoint may be a guide to technical
> writing that was published by NASA many years ago, and can still be
> downloaded from NASA's own servers:
> > http://techreports.larc.nasa.gov/ltrs/1964-cit.html
> > That page is a link to this file:
> > http://techreports.larc.nasa.gov/ltrs/PDF/NASA-64-sp7010.pdf
> > "Clarity in Technical Reporting" by S. Katzoff was written in 1955 and
> circulated informally at NASA's Langley Research Center. Popular
> demand led
> NASA to publish it officially in 1964. The PDF file on the web is
> a scan of
> a copy that was printed in 1973. The first 16 pages are about written
> reports, the last 9 pages are about verbal presentations. The
> author assumes
> that the slides will be charts and graphs, not bullet points.
>
> Ignoring for a moment our endless arguments about PowerPoint
> (please, I beg
> you!), Katzoff's comments on "Visual Aids" on p. 23 and "The Printed
> Version" on p. 25 are as relevant now as they were 48 years ago.
>
> Dan Goldstein
>


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References:
NASA's ancient guide to technical writing: From: Goldstein, Dan

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