[3152] in TECHWR-L
Re: Re[2]: More personable tech writing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Margaret Gerard)
Thu Nov 11 03:22:15 1993
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 11:25:23 EST
Reply-To: "Technical Writers List; for all Technical Communication issues" <TECHWR-L%OSUVM1.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
From: Margaret Gerard <margaret@TOSHIBA.TIC.OZ.AU>
To: Multiple recipients of list TECHWR-L <TECHWR-L%OSUVM1.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
One point raised in a previous post to this thread was the use
of contractions in making writing more "friendly".
I never use contractions in documentation unless I am quoting
conversation (maybe not even then) because, as far as I have been
able to discover here in Australia, contractions are NEVER taught
in ESL classes so a significant portion of the readership would
not understand them.
Regards,
Margaret Gerard
