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Q&A How should I handle repeating parts in a technical description?

I'm about to write a technical description for an industrial process. The description will follow logical blocks, or blocks from the PFD of the process. This a sales document aimed at engineers. Be...

0 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by mart‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Using LaTeX with publishers?

Background: Im working on a rather long instructional book, and have just started trying to use LaTeX. The book doesn't have any scientific notation in it, and most of the diagrams I made in other ...

0 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by elburzs‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Multiple tasks and a step by step tutorial

To my knowledge step-by-step tutorials should have the form of a ladder, where you describe how to get to a place step by step– accomplishing a single task at the end. Is it possible to accomplish ...

1 answer  ·  posted 11y ago by Noah‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to get a programming book published

So I feel I'm a pretty good programmer in my area of expertise. Whats the process for writing a book about my niche and getting it published?

0 answers  ·  posted 11y ago by DiverseAndRemote.com‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Multiple authors in MLA header

I'm writing a group paper and I was wondering whether there's a correct way to list multiple authors at the top of the first page in MLA format. Normally the header would look something like: My N...

2 answers  ·  posted 11y ago by Tyler Harangozo‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Should one use the legal "shall" in requirements documents and specification documents?

At least in the US, "will" has replaced "shall" in most every context, with the notable exception of the "legal shall". Shall is used instead of will in legal documents to indicate a sense of oblig...

2 answers  ·  posted 11y ago by Billy ONeal‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Should this sentence be included in the Executive Summary?

I found some examples of good and poor example of executive summaries here. Everything seems fine but in one of them, they included this sentence - "All calculations can be found in the appendi...

0 answers  ·  posted 11y ago by Sajib Mahmood‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Citing Myself As a Source

I'm writing an academic paper on ethics in robotics. I have a previous paper that I wrote and would like to use material from it. If I use the material from this paper, that I wrote, do I need to...

0 answers  ·  posted 12y ago by jmq‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Regarding Professional Report [closed]

I am new in the working world and I happen to be given a lot of tasks related with creating report. Later on I heard people give me comments that my sentence structure and my word choices are not ...

0 answers  ·  posted 12y ago by rofans91‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Does this feel like natural English?

Although I'm pretty confident in my English, I'm not a native English speaker. I need to write a short introduction for a symposium; I'd like to know if you think this paragraph feels like 'natural...

0 answers  ·  posted 13y ago by Paul‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Feedback on technical blog post

I've recently composed a blog post about World of Warcraft Authenticators and would love for some feedback as per the quality of writing. Obviously no matter how many times I read it there's no su...

0 answers  ·  posted 13y ago by m.edmondson‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A How should be the format for literature references that are websites (URLs)?

In technical writings are good established standards for formatting literature references. But that doesn't work this well for URLs. How should these references be formatted?

0 answers  ·  posted 13y ago by Mnementh‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭