RE: teaching technical writing to engineers

[Lucy Connor <lconnor -at- asmr -dot- com>]

I agree 100%; it's a great reference book.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jones, Donna [mailto:DJones -at- zebra -dot- com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 10:52 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: teaching technical writing to engineers



Many moons ago when I attended Michigan Tech University, we used a grammar
book called "The Little, Brown Handbook." I remember that being one of the
best basic grammar-teaching books in how it was written and structured. Some
17 or 18 years later, I still remember what dangling and misplaced modifiers
are (which I discovered that I was notorious for) and how to avoid using
them. The grammar class based on that book was second to none as far as
teaching me how to write clearly.

I checked Amazon.com, and the book is still being published and is up to the
9th edition. That site also lists "The Little, Brown Compact Handbook,"
which I'm guessing is a subset of the other book.

Donna
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Donna Jones
Technical Writer II
Zebra Technologies Corp.
Vernon Hills, IL



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