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32.14 TECHNICAL ENGLISH


The table below indicates some good and poor choices for words and terms to use in technical papers.

Table 2: Technical Words and Phrases
Good
Bad
calculated
found,
measured
read
chose
optimized
parallax error
human error
damper
dampener (makes things wet)
resistor
resister (someone who resists)
build, calculate, write
create
shows
represent

Table 3: Plain English
Good
Bad
was
it became obvious that
came in at
representing
 
 
 

Generally bad phrases,

in order to be
needed to be ----> is
needed to be used
so as to
decided to be
can be located
found to have
found through
it was found that
implementation of
important
precise
exact
perfect
noted to be
involved
allowed for it
was found to be
was looked thorough ---> reviewed
along with - with
also
then
decided on - selected
found - measured, calculated
the wearing of
needed to

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