{"title":"Problems Posed by an Expanding Technical Literature","authors":"C. Bourne","doi":"10.1109/TEWS.1962.4322755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEWS.1962.4322755","url":null,"abstract":"A quantitative estimate is made of the magnitude of the world's electronics and electrical engineering journal literature problem. By the use of a number of basic sources of information, a composite picture is established to show total volume, linguistic and national origins, degree of coverage by the abstracting and indexing services, and the availability of special information centers. Some criticism is directed at the electrical engineering professional societies for not taking more positive action on this problem of concern to their entire membership. The paper concludes with suggestions for coping with this general problem.","PeriodicalId":118434,"journal":{"name":"IRE Transactions on Engineering Writing and Speech","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1962-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121928762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Proposal and Inquiry Writing - Analysis, Techniques, Practice","authors":"S. Mandel, D. Caldwell, W. E. Collins","doi":"10.1109/TEWS.1962.4322762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEWS.1962.4322762","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":118434,"journal":{"name":"IRE Transactions on Engineering Writing and Speech","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1962-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121954726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Communication in Business and Industry [book review]","authors":"T. Farrell","doi":"10.1109/TEWS.1962.4322761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEWS.1962.4322761","url":null,"abstract":"The authors (William M. Schulte and Erwin R. Steinberg) skillfully touch the needs of readers. As teachers, they understand those needs and as writers they appeal to them, clarify them, and meet them. Little more can be asked of any textbook. Additionally, this one is pleasant to read and easy to learn from. It is an effective example of its own teachings. The relaxed style is persuasive, so that one has to look twice to detect how his thinking has been altered.","PeriodicalId":118434,"journal":{"name":"IRE Transactions on Engineering Writing and Speech","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1962-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125042418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Can the Technical Writer of the past Teach the Technical Writer of Today?","authors":"W. Miller","doi":"10.1109/TEWS.1961.4322736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEWS.1961.4322736","url":null,"abstract":"When in despair over the problems of presenting technical information, today's engineer, scientist, and technical writer can gain fresh inspiration by reading the classics of engineering literature. Major writers, including ancient and medieval authors as well as outstanding moderns like Ammann and Raymond, can teach us a lot about variations in form and approach and about appropriate use of rhythm and metaphor. Further, our great technical writers make us reconsider our contemporary notion of \"objectivity\" and its values.","PeriodicalId":118434,"journal":{"name":"IRE Transactions on Engineering Writing and Speech","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1961-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125576225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creative Aspects of Engineering Writing","authors":"H. Michaelson","doi":"10.1109/TEWS.1961.4322737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEWS.1961.4322737","url":null,"abstract":"Writing an engineering paper is shown to be an intrinsic part of the engineering work, rather than a mere recording of results. The process of writing a paper for publication in an engineering journal has some rather interesting aspects of creativity. This paper shows how any careful attempt to record and analyze the results of an engineering project will actually contribute to the engineer's understanding of his own work. Writing a paper not only affords a fresh insight to the author, but may even inspire a more thorough study and a new approach to laboratory work before the manuscript is finished. In addition, this paper exposes three popular fallacies about the creative aspects of writing.","PeriodicalId":118434,"journal":{"name":"IRE Transactions on Engineering Writing and Speech","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1961-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132739368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dictionary of Style for Typewritten Technical Reports and Manuscripts for Publication","authors":"C. Susskind, H. Michaelson","doi":"10.1109/TEWS.1961.4322747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEWS.1961.4322747","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":118434,"journal":{"name":"IRE Transactions on Engineering Writing and Speech","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1961-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126303663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Testing the Readability of Engineering Writing","authors":"Stewart Docter","doi":"10.1109/TEWS.1961.4322740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEWS.1961.4322740","url":null,"abstract":"The question discussed here is whether or not scientific writing can be made more readable by using a \"readability formula.\" The methods of Flesch readability testing are described briefly. The applicability to technical writing is limited but the technique does seem useful for improving the language network connecting technical terms.","PeriodicalId":118434,"journal":{"name":"IRE Transactions on Engineering Writing and Speech","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1961-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124592671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Writing of Abstracts","authors":"Christian K. Arnold","doi":"10.1109/TEWS.1961.4322738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEWS.1961.4322738","url":null,"abstract":"The abstract is not only the most important section of your report or paper, but also the most difficult to write. Effective abstracts 1) must contain enough specific information to satisfy the needs of a research worker looking for sources of information and of an administrator looking for a progress or status definition; 2) must be a complete, self-sufficient unit; 3) must be made as short as possible without violating accuracy or eliminating essential information; 4) must be written in fluent, easily understood language; 5) must be consistent in tone and emphasis with the parent report or paper; and 6) should make the widest possible use of numerals and standard, generally recognized abbreviations.","PeriodicalId":118434,"journal":{"name":"IRE Transactions on Engineering Writing and Speech","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1961-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124099473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Use of Semantic Structures in Information Systems","authors":"J. Sable","doi":"10.1109/TEWS.1961.4322739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEWS.1961.4322739","url":null,"abstract":"An approach to the problem of obtaining a semantically structured vocabulary for use in information systems is presented. It is felt that this approach is valid for a system whose users are a relatively homogeneous group in a well-defined problem area. The semantic structure of the technical vocabulary of such a group is defined and is presented as a useful representation of a relatively stable relationship between the words appearing in queries about information in the system and the words in the information-carrying documents or records themselves. Procedures are given for the discovery of semantic structure and its use in an index to information and for a formal language for describing information.","PeriodicalId":118434,"journal":{"name":"IRE Transactions on Engineering Writing and Speech","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1961-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128963873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preparing a Bibliography","authors":"Brian F. Eden","doi":"10.1109/TEWS.1961.4322741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEWS.1961.4322741","url":null,"abstract":"Preparing concise, acceptable bibliographies is one of the unpleasant details of report writing facing the engineer, writer, and editor. Here, for use as a guide, is a comprehensive summary of the essentials of their preparation.","PeriodicalId":118434,"journal":{"name":"IRE Transactions on Engineering Writing and Speech","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1961-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124265256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}