scientific writing

[James Cornish]

Charles Muirhead:

This is a reference page for a paper on passives in technical writing.
I hope there are some leads for you.


Persuading science: the art of scientific rhetoric. Canton, MA: Science
History Publications, USA, 1991.

Alciere, Rose Mary.  "Avoiding Governmentspeak."  Technical
Communications 40  (1993):  262-264.

Broadhead, Glenn J.  "Style in Technical and Scientific Writing."
Research in Technical  Communication: A Bibliographic Sourcebook. Eds.
Michael G. Moran and Debra  Journel.  Westport Ct: Greenwood, 1985.
217-252.

CCCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric.  New York: Longman, 1988.

Chafe, Wallace,  Discourse, Consciousness, and Time. Chicago: U of
Chicago P, 1994.

Coleman, Brady.  "In Defense of the Passive Voice in Legal Writing."
Journal of  Technical Writing and Communication.  27.2 (1997): 191-203.

Cornelis, Louise E.  "The Passive Voice in Computer Manuals:  A New
Perspective."   Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 25.3
(1995): 285-301.

Cornish, James W. The Shifting Sands of Semantosyntax: An Adjective by
any other  Name
(An Analysis of Adjectival Passive Use  in Samples of
the New York  Times).  Unpublished MA Thesis.  California State
University at Fresno, 1996.

Faigley, Lester and Witte, Stephen P.  "Topical Focus in Technical
Writing."  New Essays   in Technical and Scientific Communication:
Research, Theory, and Practice. eds. Paul V. Anderson, R. John
Brockmann, and Carolyn R. Miller. Tarmingdale  NY: Baywood, 1983. 59-68.

Kies, Daniel.  Some Stylistic Features of Business and Technical
Writing:  The Functions  of Passive Voice, Nominalization, and Agency."
Journal of Technical Writing and  Communication. 15:4 (1985):  299-308.

Killingsworth, M. Jimmie.  "Guest Editorial: Thingishness and
Objectivity in
 Technical Style."  Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 17
(1987):  105-113.

Lovejoy, Kim Brian and Donald M. Lance. "Information Management and
Cohesion in  the Study of Written Discourse."  Linguistics and Education
3 (1991): 251-273.

Rude, Carolyn D.  Technical Editing. Belmont CA: Wadsworth, 1991.

Samuels, Marilyn Schaure.  The Technical Writing Process.  New York:
Oxford UP,  1989.

Schoff, Gretchen Hostein, and Patricia A. Bobinson. Writing and
Designing Manuals. 2nd  ed. Chelsea Mich: Lewis, 1991.

Sides, Charles H. How to Write and Present Technical Information. 2nd
ed. Phoenix:  Oryz, 1991.

Turk, Christopher, and John Kirkman.  Effective Writing: Improving
Scientific, Technical  and Business Communication. 2nd ed. London: Spon,
1994.

Warren, Thomas L.  "The Passive Voice Verb: A Selected, Annotated
Bibliography - Part  I."  Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
11.3 (1981):  271-286.

Wilkinson, Antonette M.  The Scientist's Handbook for Writing Papers
and  Dissertationns.  Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice Hall, 1991.


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