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MR. G. E. WILLIAMS' book is an expansion of his paper ''The Presentation of Technical Literature", published in the Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1944. To the extended sections of that paper Mr. Williams has now added chapters on the preparation of manuscripts, the art editing and on illustrations, and he also appends some notes on editing standards. In these respects his book differs from that of Prof. Kapp on "The Presentation of Technical Information", and although similar in scale and alike in their emphasis on the technical ideal that the treatment of a theme and the choice of words should be determined by their fitness for the purpose to be served, there are marked differences between these two books. Mr. Williams is concerned only with the writer, whereas Prof. Kapp deals with the lecturer also.
Technical Literature
Its Preparation and Presentation. By G. E. Williams. Pp. 117. (London : George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1948.) 7s. 6d. net.
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BRIGHTMAN, R. Technical Literature. Nature 163, 306 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163306b0
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