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Tech. Communication
- 1. Maria Mercy AmuthaENGLISH Technical Communication
- 2. Governing Factors yesNo No Yes Yes Sister yes No No Yes Yes Dad Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Mum Fallen ill? Noodles Salad Beef Oyster Member/ food taken
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- 4. Purpose Informing ExplainingDescribing Arguing Persuading Recording Audience Format Style
- 5. Features Of Technicalwriting Precision and clarity Use of special words Change of vocabulary in technical writing Use of familiar words Special words from Greek and Latin
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Editor's Notes
- #3 Scientific reasoning Mill's methods for identifying causes John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was an English philosopher who wrote on a wide range of topics ranging from language and science to political philosophy. The so-called "Mill's methods" are five rules for investigating causes that he has proposed. The Method of Agreement The best way to introduce Mill's methods is perhaps through an example. Suppose your family went out together for a buffet dinner, but when you got home all of you started feeling sick and experienced stomach aches. How do you determine the cause of the illness? Suppose you draw up a table of the food taken by each family member : Mill's rule of agreement says that if in all cases where an effect occurs, there is a single prior factor C that is common to all those cases, then C is the cause of the effect. According to the table in this example, the only thing that all of you have eaten is oyster. So applying the rule of agreement we infer that eating oyster is the cause of the illnesses.