Writer Rivergrammar http://writerriver.com social news for technical communicators Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:28:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://writerriver.com http://writerriver.com/wp-content/favicon.gif Writer River Language Log » What’s wrong with this passage? http://writerriver.com/2009/05/22/language-log-%c2%bb-what%e2%80%99s-wrong-with-this-passage/ http://writerriver.com/2009/05/22/language-log-%c2%bb-what%e2%80%99s-wrong-with-this-passage/#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 16:26:39 +0000 Tom Johnson http://writerriver.com/?p=1155 Language Log » What’s wrong with this passage?.

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Elements of Style gets another rough ride.

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Ben Minson has written a good piece about grammar in Gryphon Mountain Journals.

an objective for technical communicators is to reach beyond the grammatical and achieve clarity

A cartoon I did with an article for the USU Writing Center newsletter. The article's point was that grammar isn't a destructive monster.

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]]> http://writerriver.com/2009/02/05/technical-writing-glossary/feed/ 0 A Tech Writer’s World: A Killer Manual http://writerriver.com/2008/12/26/a-tech-writers-world-a-killer-manual/ http://writerriver.com/2008/12/26/a-tech-writers-world-a-killer-manual/#comments Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:38:06 +0000 Tom Johnson http://writerriver.com/2008/12/26/a-tech-writers-world-a-killer-manual/ A Tech Writer’s World: A Killer Manual.

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