+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p697 N 27 ’19 340w
RICKARD, THOMAS ARTHUR. Technical writing. *$1.50 Wiley 808
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“Mr Rickard has served as editor of three leading mining periodicals and has written several well known professional works. He laments the carelessness shown by engineers in the preparation of reports and papers and has brought into this work the expansion of five lectures which he delivered in 1916 to engineering classes in the University of California. The many faults of composition and errors of vocabulary are discussed and illustrated by many examples of bad writing (with corrections) gleaned mainly from mining books and periodicals.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
“Mr Rickard’s exposition is vigorous and broad-minded.”
+ Ath p352 S 10 ’20 150w
“It is well worth discriminating perusal, the chapter on style being particularly good. Violations of present-day typographical orthodoxy mar nearly every page of his book. They suggest the amateur. They are not classic. Also, in a work of this sort, it is only reasonable to expect that the author will observe his own precepts.” W. N. P. R.
+ − Engineering & Mining Journal 109:1326 Je 12 ’20 780w
“The lay reader should also get much from the volume.”