Personal Page of Carlos A. Astudillo Trujillo

Technical Writing

This is a section devoted to compilate some common mistakes in technical writing in English. I inspired me with the technical writing section of the personal page of Prof. Luis DaSilva from VirginiaTech.

Definitions: noun

Puntuation in English: Source 1

Prepositions "Of," "To," and "For". Source 1

Prepositions "On," "At," and "In". Source 1

Incorrect usage of words. Source 1

Use of "it" and "that". Source 1

Allow

This behavior allows a cache to take

Against

The tag from the cache is compared against the upper portion of the address to determine whether the entry in the cache corresponds to the requested address.

When to leave out that. Source 1, Source 2

Which vs That. Source 1

Aim at vs Aim to. Source1