COMPUTER SYSTEMS RESEARCH
Elements of Technical Writing
2005-2006

  • Use terms your reader can picture
     "Prick us and we bleed, but the bleeding stops; the blood clots. The sticky cell fragments called
      platelets clump at the site of the puncture, partially sealing the leak."
    
        --from Russell Doolittle, "Fibrinogen and Fibrin"
    
      The author could have written "Platelets help our blood to clot", but instead uses concrete and more vivid
       terms.