DONALD ROSS
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Department of English, University of Minnesota


"A Theory of the Function of Technical Writing," The Technical Writing Teacher, 9 (1981), 3-9.

To account for the formal descriptions and rules for technical writing, it is plausible to claim that it functions as a replacement for memory. When such writing is not effective, it because it does not fulfill that function.


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