precisiedetails
Precisiedetails is a term used in technical writing to describe the practice of including precise, unambiguous information in a specification, dataset, or narrative. While not a formally standardized concept, it is deployed to remind writers to enumerate concrete values, constraints, and assumptions to minimize interpretation variance.
Key characteristics include explicit measurements and units, defined tolerances, versioning and timestamps, data provenance, edge cases,
Applications span product specifications, API contracts, data dictionaries, experimental protocols, and software test plans. In each
Challenges involve balancing completeness with readability, avoiding information overload, and maintaining up-to-date details as systems evolve.
See also: precision, clarity in documentation, reproducibility, data quality.