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      • 2: Being Precise and Clear
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Online Lessons for The Craft of Scientific Writing

These online lessons are designed to help engineers and scientists write about their technical work more effectively. Sponsored by the Leonhard Center in the College of Engineering at Penn State, these lessons contain teaching films and online exercises. The book references given below refer to portions of the fourth edition of The Craft of Scientific Writing (CSW).
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Introduction CSW: Introduction
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Avoiding Needless Complexity CSW: Lesson 2
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Avoiding Ambiguities CSW: Lesson 3
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Correspondence: Constraints CSW: Lesson 9
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Correspondence: Structure CSW: Lesson 9
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