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Style. And why it’s important in technical communication. Styles: Plain, Persuasive, Grand. Take five minutes with your favorite search engine and find an example of each – then compare them. What makes them identifiable as a certain style? . The Emancipation Proclamation.

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  1. Style And why it’s important in technical communication

  2. Styles: Plain, Persuasive, Grand • Take five minutes with your favorite search engine and find an example of each – then compare them. What makes them identifiable as a certain style?

  3. The Emancipation Proclamation • Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit: "That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free …

  4. So … what is Style? • Style is “the essence of what remains of an author’s writing” after the writing and the author are gone (147). • From: Butler, Paul. Out of Style: Reanimating Stylistic Study in Composition and Rhetoric. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2008. Print.

  5. So … what is Style? Don McMillan’s “Life After Death by PowerPoint” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpvgfmEU2Ck

  6. So … what is Style? • Does style affect (perception of) content? • Whirl: http://www.thewhirlonline.com/headlinenews.php

  7. So … what is Style? Style can also refer to a set of prescriptive rules in academia, as in MLA Style, APA Style, Chicago Style, etc. In technical communication, one oft-used style is the style of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. We’ll call this IEEE Style. A link to the IEEE Style Manual can be found in the “online reading” section of the course wiki

  8. IEEE Style The bibliography is a lettered annex that appears as either the first or last annex In general, the title or author of the publication and the bibliographic reference number should be cited [B4]. If the item is a standard, the designation (e.g., IEEE Std 1226.6-1996) and bibliographic reference number (e.g., [B4]) should be cited. The bibliography should be ordered alphanumerically, without respect to the type of publication being cited.

  9. IEEE Style [B1] Boggs, S. A., and Fujimoto, N., “Techniques and instrumentation for measurement of transients in gas-insulated switchgear,” IEEE Transactions on Electrical Installation, vol. ET-19, no. 2, pp. 87-92, Apr. 1984. [B26] Peck, R. B., Hanson, W. E., and Thornburn, T. H., Foundation Engineering, 2d ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972, pp. 230-292. Default to Chicago Style when there is no direction in IEEE Style.

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