What Is Technical Writing?: "The only good criterion for technical writing is 'does it work?' This indicates that in technical writing as well as in other <a href="http://grammar.about.com/od/rs/g/rhetoricterm.htm">rhetorical</a> forms, the writer-reader relationship is most important" (Gordon Mills and John Walter, <i>Technical Writing</i>, 1954)
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