編修英文 (Copyediting Skills)

Multimedia Language Classroom
多媒體語言教室
Exercise 193

Class One Write for Conciseness 精確寫作
( Exercises 1 to 3 beginning on page 2 in An Editing Workbook for Chinese Technical Writers by Ted Knoy )

忙碌的專家們是沒有時間去逐字的閱讀冗長的報告文件，因此很多科技作者的文稿被拒絕或延遲發表，就是因為他們無法精短的表達文章意念。本單元即要強化您精簡文句的功力。

[ Exercise 1 ]

  1. All inputs are combined by engineers to create a product.
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  2. Three phases of analysis are included in their approach.
  3. A statistical comparison is made of the proposed procedures with Taguchi's two-step procedure.
  4. A more efficient combination among the factor levels is achieved when the control factor is continuous.
  5. Factors causing saturation include temperature, volume and weight.
  6. The Taguchi approach entails minimizing the average quadratic loss.
  7. There have been a considerable amount of studies on robust design.
  8. There is a significant difference in control levels for the parameter settings.
  9. The committee made a decision on the question as to using an individual mouse or a trackball would be more productive.
  10. As a general rule, mice and trackballs serve the function of being both used for the same reason.

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