Re: Preferred Sentence Structure

[Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>]

25 years ago, when I had my introduction to technical writing in a 
technical writing course, I learned to avoid the "to be" sense and 
wound-up applying that to nearly every use of the word "to" and the 
future tense. Whether my instructor was right or wrong, the habit 
remained. I also look for ways to say things with the fewest words 
possible that convey all of the necessary information, like avoiding 
unnecessary repetition.

Is it important for you to repeat "A." If "A" is a long title, will the 
duplicity help or hinder?

Here, you can delete the word "to" and then fix your sentence. For 
example, "Learn more [at] A" or "See [A]" and leave out everything else.

Here are my examples with your examples for comparison using this link 
represented by brackets: 
https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution.

A: To learn more about The Constitution of the United States of America, 
see [The Constitution of the United States of America].

B: See [The Constitution of the United States of America] to learn more 
about The Constitution of the United States of America.

C: Learn more about [The Constitution of the United States of America].

D: See [The Constitution of the United States of America].

Perhaps you may want something that says "follow" [or click] this link." 
People are internet savvy now and can usually recognize that linked text 
provides more information about the text and do not need to be reminded 
to follow the link or that by following the link they will "learn more."

There are example of "See [link]" here, 
https://grammar.collinsdictionary.com/us/easy-learning/future-reference. 
Although many references on that page are self-referencing. Minor error...


On 12/27/2018 4:46 AM, Paul Hanson wrote: