A Program for Revision in Business and Technical Writing

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This article presents a program for revision, based on five criteria: amount/ hind of detail, appropriate emphasis of content, logical progression, stylistic appropriateness, mechanical accuracy. Amount/hind of detail depends on a review of the audience addressed and the purposes for com posing. Appropriate emphasis also depends on audience and purpose and involves considering location and amount of space given to content. Logical progression—the arrangement and cohesiveness of the writing— includes reviewing traditional patterns of order and use of transitions. Topic sentences predict the order of paragraphs; transitions provide inter nal links. Stylistic appropriateness involves rereading to suit sentence length, structure, and complexity; diction; voice and tone to the audience. Mechanical accuracy is an editing procedure.

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