Writing and publishing are crucial to the development of a successful academic career. However, lecturers typically receive little guidance on this strand of their job. Any support that does exist tends to focus on the technical and practical aspects of scholarly writing. Advice is rarely provided on managing creative and emotional facets factors that greatly contribute to writing quality and s...

While human-oriented controlled languages developed and applied in the domain of technical documentation have received considerable attention, language control exerted in the process of legislative drafting has, until recently, gone relatively unnoticed by the controlled language community. This paper considers existing legislative drafting guidelines from the perspective of controlled language...

This paper discusses the writing and translation problems that multilinguality imposes to software industry. Inconsistent terminology, inefficient reuse of existing translation resources as well as lack of control of technical writing and translation process are such problems caused mainly by the inefficient organisation and retrieval of lexical resources. The paper proposes the use of a knowle...

With the advent of computer technology, researchers and instructors are attempting to devise computer support for effective collaborative technical writing. In this study, a computer-supported environment for collaborative technical writing was developed. This system (Process-Writing Wizard) provides process-oriented scaffolds and a synchronous online chat room to facilitate real-time collabora...

This paper describes automatic terminology intelligibility estimation for readership-oriented technical writing. We assume that the term frequency weighted by the types of documents can be an indicator of the term intelligibility for a certain readership. From this standpoint, we analyzed the relationship between the following: average intelligibility levels of 46 technical terms that were rate...

The abstract must summarize the paper clearly stating the context the contribution and the main results In this paper I provide a number of hints that should be useful to students in computer science in writing quality technical papers This paper is re exive in the sense that it is written following these hints The hints are provided in terms of rules and form the basis for a simple method for ...