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Do you want good grammar or good machines?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Extract

Although American engineers design and build some of the best machines in the world, their machines may be accompanied by instructions in the form of a booklet, an owner's or operator's manual, whose quality does not always match the level of the quality of the machines. All the customer hopes for is clarity and simplicity. ANDRÉ GABRIEL wonders why American engineering companies don't hire proof-readers

Type
Style & Rhetoric
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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