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A more discursive style-one that is relaxed and marked with personal pronouns and active-voice constructions-has been the subject of recent modest experiments at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Early results indicate that such a style is more readable, more interesting, and probably a better vehicle...

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Published inIEEE transactions on engineering writing and speech Vol. 7; no. 3; pp. 3 - 8
Main Author Reel, Willard D.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.12.1964
Subjects
Government
History
Information retrieval
Instruments
Laboratories
Natural languages
Psychology
Speech
Vehicles
Writing
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Summary:A more discursive style-one that is relaxed and marked with personal pronouns and active-voice constructions-has been the subject of recent modest experiments at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Early results indicate that such a style is more readable, more interesting, and probably a better vehicle for transmitting information from one mind to another.
ISSN:0018-9405
2331-3706
DOI:10.1109/TEWS.1964.4322574