Chaucer's 'A Treatise on the Astrolabe': A 600-year-old Model for Humanizing Technical Documents
- Author / Editor
- Hager, Peter J.,and Ronald J. Nelson.
Chaucer's 'A Treatise on the Astrolabe': A 600-year-old Model for Humanizing Technical Documents
- Published
- IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 36 (1993): 87-94.
- Description
- Astr shows how technical writers can "judiciously incorporate into their writing such central rhetorical components as coherent structure, appropriate content, accurate and precise descriptions, personable tone, effective metadiscourse, and varied sentence structure and length." The work shows how Chaucer merged his "logico-rational" and "humanistic" selves.
- Contributor
- Nelson, Ronald J.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Treatise on the Astrolabe.