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Subject:Re: Basic rules of technical writing From:Semonian -at- FWVA -dot- SAIC -dot- COM Date:Wed, 21 Dec 1994 21:59:36 GMT
cjbenz -at- aol -dot- com (CJBenz) writes:
>The Golden Rules of Writing
>1. Make it understandable.
>2. Make it consistent, unless that interferes with Rule 1.
>3. Make it grammatically correct, unless that interferes with Rule 1 or 2.
>4. Make it technically correct, unless that interferes with Rule 1, 2, or
>3.
So a document can be understandable, consistent, and
grammatically correct but technically incorrect?
