Technical Writing

WR227 Editorial marks for written work Wiseman H. Icon Highlighting icons needed—white space, boldface etc. IM Use imperative mood for instructions LF Use list format You att. Use you-attitude for business tone Meta Avoid metadiscourse: “I am writing this memo”—writing about writing A-A-R Use Actor-Action-Result sentence structure V Vague word or wording CF or CS Comma fault or comma splice (same thing) Frag Sentence fragment RO Run-on sentence S/V agr Subject-verb disagreement PN agr Pronoun disagreement WC Word choice D Diction—context of words is faulty Pass Passive voice ineffective VM Verbal mood ineffective PS or p.s. Person shift confuses the sense of the writing SS Sentence sense is not clear Cont Avoid contractions in formal essays, letters, and memos FP Faulty parallelism Usage Standard Edited English not followed Awk Phrase or clause is awkwardly worded WW Wrong word: “it’s” for “its” or “there” for “their” Trans Transition is weak or absent Pargh Paragraphing needed P Punctuation error Pos phr use positive phrasing DM Dangling modifier Prec Precision needed Exact Exactness needed Cl Clarity needed Gramm Grammatical error SP Spelling error Log? Logic is faulty or inconsistent