Posts Tagged ‘Accuracy’
LexTips: Are You a Trooper or a Trouper?
Posted by: lexpower on: June 15, 2011
Meet two of my pet peeves in word usage: trooper and trouper I am currently on a linguistic rampage about how to distinguish one from the other, because lately I’ve noticed an outbreak of misuse and misunderstanding involving these two words. Whenever I come across such an unfortunate lapse, it causes me to raise one [...]
What Is Technical Writing?
Posted by: lexpower on: June 21, 2010
In recent decades, technical writing has been particularly associated with engineering, computer hardware and software, and scientific fields in general. However, we all know that technical content may appear in many other types of writing, such as science fiction. Newspapers, magazines and other media may also publish articles or videos that deal with technical subjects. [...]
The Top Secret to Writing an Effective Complaint Letter
Posted by: lexpower on: February 21, 2010
Somewhere along the way in nearly every person’s life, there comes a time when it is necessary to write a letter of complaint to someone. A time when you feel you have exhausted all other reasonable avenues, yet still cannot get the offending party — merchant? neighbor? government agency? family member? colleague? – to cooperate and work toward [...]
