Keeping to the Code: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Evolution of Technical Style Guides in the Computer Age

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2009-09-16T14:28:08Z

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Wimer, Rachel

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This thesis provides a rhetorical analysis of technical style guides beginning with the history of technical writing and style guides, the evolution of style guides, and individual case studies, concluding that a style guide must be kept up to date or otherwise be rendered irrelevant.

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Style, Technical writing, Microsoft, Style guides, Grammar, Rhetoric

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