Re: Examples of bad technical writing

Subject: Re: Examples of bad technical writing
From: "Williams, Diane (contractor)" <Williams_Diane -at- DOTE -dot- OSD -dot- MIL>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 17:16:28 -0400

>>Can anyone direct me to some "good" examples of bad technical writing? I'm
looking for something (or a part of something--for example, a chapter
from
a book) from ten to twenty pages in length to edit for a class I'm
taking.<<

There is a whole website devoted to bad technical writing, but I dunno
if there is a 10-page document there.

http://www.corecomm.com/worst.html

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