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Subject:Re: Academic/technical writing From:Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY -at- CAMINS -dot- CAMOSUN -dot- BC -dot- CA> Date:Fri, 7 May 1993 13:18:20 -0700
> Date: Fri, 07 May 1993 07:41:15 -0500 (CDT) Thus spake Chuck Banks
<chuck -at- ASL -dot- DL -dot- NEC -dot- COM>
CB>
CB>While most Academic writing is expository or cognitive, neither
CB>quality qualifies Academic writing as a form of technical writing.
...... several astute observations about academic & technical writing ....
CB>
CB>So please, don't lump the two, Academic writing and Technical
CB>writing, together. They sometimes agree in their intent, but
CB>usually have much different goals and audiences.
As a geologist friend of mine once said:
Them's my sediments, Pahdner.
Peter
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