Writing 2130F/G Study Guide - Winter 2019, Comprehensive Final Exam Notes - Verb, Serial Comma, Rhetoric
29 Mar 2019
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Engineers "communicate complexity in ways that are comprehensible and accurate". "we have to start looking at what makes it so we best affect these standards for this specific piece of communications" A lesson in objectivity: lemessurier"s "59 storey crisis" case. In this case, he basically built a building and it was discovered afterwards that it was unsafe. So he objectively subjected his company to millions of dollars in losses and reworking the building in order to be objective. A lesson in clarity and precision: case of the million missing serial comma. In this case, the company did not included the serial comma in the state law and there was thus a disconnect between how much the employees thing they should have been making and how much the company paid them. The difference between engineering writing and science writing is that the goal of engineering writing is usually the end goal of implementation of it"s ideas.
