Engineering English
Do we not all assume too readily that because we speak, or think we speak, English, our expression of the thought, in our mninds is impeccable? Is not our engineering vocabulary too strictly professional? Does it not cramp the intelligence and impair perception? Ought we not to "break their bon...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers 1903-07, Vol.XXII, p.609-614 |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Do we not all assume too readily that because we speak, or think we speak, English, our expression of the thought, in our mninds is impeccable? Is not our engineering vocabulary too strictly professional? Does it not cramp the intelligence and impair perception? Ought we not to "break their bonds asunder," and learn thoroughly to use the master-tool - English? This article is a corollary of the discussion at Great Barrington last summer (1902), and refers to only one subject which the author feels fervently should always be included in the curriculum of an engineering education that is, the English language. |
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| ISSN: | 0096-3860 2330-9431 |
| DOI: | 10.1109/T-AIEE.1903.4764402 |