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Chapter Introduction If you're here, learning mathematics or a programming language was probably a lot easier than writing. Why is this? Because writing is an art. There is no clear line between right and wrong. If you make a mistake in your code, the compiler tells you or the program crashes. In writing, there are no guarantees a mistake in your writing will be caught in your word processor. This chapter covers the extra tools you can use to aid and perfect your writing. The Resources section can't write your paper for you, but it can help point you in the right direction.

Common Writing Mistakes

If you're human, you make mistakes. We usually don't repeat the mistakes we make, except those that appear in our writing. Covered here are some of the more common writing mistakes in the hopes that you will be able to weed them out in your own writing.

External Resources

Grammar

• Common Writing Errors
• Norton's Quick & Dirty Guide to Sentence Structure
• Strunk's Elements of Style

Odd/Crazy Technical Writing

• Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby

Other

• Honesty Declaration

Reference's

• The Comp 3040 Website
• Pfeiffer, William S.; Jan Boogerd (2006) Technical Communication: A Practical Approach; Pearson Toronto ISBN:0-13-196293-0