And why it’s important in technical communication
Take five minutes with your favorite search engine and find an example of each – then compare them. What makes them identifiable as a certain style? Styles: Plain, Persuasive, Grand
Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit: "That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free … The Emancipation Proclamation
Style is “the essence of what remains of an author’s writing” after the writing and the author are gone (147). ◦ From: Butler, Paul. Out of Style: Reanimating Stylistic Study in Composition and Rhetoric. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, Print. So … what is Style?
Don McMillan’s “Life After Death by PowerPoint” Ck So … what is Style?
Does style affect (perception of) content? Whirl: So … what is Style?
Style can also refer to a set of prescriptive rules in academia, as in MLA Style, APA Style, Chicago Style, etc. In technical communication, one oft-used style is the style of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. We’ll call this IEEE Style. A link to the IEEE Style Manual can be found in the “online reading” section of the course wiki So … what is Style?
The bibliography is a lettered annex that appears as either the first or last annex In general, the title or author of the publication and the bibliographic reference number should be cited [B4]. If the item is a standard, the designation (e.g., IEEE Std ) and bibliographic reference number (e.g., [B4]) should be cited. The bibliography should be ordered alphanumerically, without respect to the type of publication being cited. IEEE Style
[B1] Boggs, S. A., and Fujimoto, N., “Techniques and instrumentation for measurement of transients in gas-insulated switchgear,” IEEE Transactions on Electrical Installation, vol. ET-19, no. 2, pp , Apr [B26] Peck, R. B., Hanson, W. E., and Thornburn, T. H., Foundation Engineering, 2d ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972, pp Default to Chicago Style when there is no direction in IEEE Style. IEEE Style