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    What Is Technical Writing

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    Technical writing involves documenting processes, conveying technical information through text, and explaining complex subjects simply. It includes writing manuals, reports, proposals, and other documents. Technical writing is taught to train professionals to communicate effectively for their careers through writing formal reports, letters, and other documents in English. The writing process involves three main stages: pre-writing such as determining audience and gathering information, writing a draft, and post-writing such as revising, editing, and proofreading.

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    Technical writing involves documenting processes, conveying technical information through text, and explaining complex subjects simply. It includes writing manuals, reports, proposals, and other documents. Technical writing is taught to train professionals to communicate effectively for their careers through writing formal reports, letters, and other documents in English. The writing process involves three main stages: pre-writing such as determining audience and gathering information, writing a draft, and post-writing such as revising, editing, and proofreading.

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    Technical writing involves documenting processes, conveying technical information through text, and explaining complex subjects simply. It includes writing manuals, reports, proposals, and other documents. Technical writing is taught to train professionals to communicate effectively for their careers through writing formal reports, letters, and other documents in English. The writing process involves three main stages: pre-writing such as determining audience and gathering information, writing a draft, and post-writing such as revising, editing, and proofreading.

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    What is technical writing?

    Practice of:
    • Documenting process
    • Conveying technical and professional information
    by text
    • Writing about subjects that require directions,
    instructions, or explanations
    • Using writing (communication skills) to make
    complex information easy to decipher
    • Sharing of intuitive and well-informed
    explanations of machines and processes.
    Examples of technical writing
    • Request for detailed figures of faulty end products
    • Evaluation of a machine breakdown
    • Laboratory report
    • Departmental monthly report
    • Report on a meeting or visit
    • Final project or thesis
    • Technical manual
    • Brochure
    • Journal (research) article
    • Email to a business contact
    • Letters of rejection, complaint, etc.
    Why we teach technical writing as a
    subject?

    •To train you to be future skilled professionals who need


    to perfect their writing skills in English from a professional
    point of view.
    •In your professional life you may very well need to write
    formal business letters and reports of different kinds.
    •Engineers today are expected to be multiliterate.
    Qualities
    You need to have a good command of:
    • content knowledge
    • context knowledge
    • English language knowledge
    • Genre knowledge
    • Writing process knowledge
    Why is it important to study technical
    writing?
    • constitutes an important part of the everyday
    workload
    • facilitates communication with co-workers,
    clients and supervisors
    • necessary for a successful career
    • contribute to saving time and money
    Introduction to the writing process
    Three important stages
    1. Pre-writing.
    (a) audience and purpose (who you are writing to and why),
    (b) tone and style (how you transmit the information),
    (c) gathering of information (brainstorming, analyzing sources of information, etc.)
    and
    (d) outlining (organization of information).

    2. Writing.
    Begin writing a first draft, consider the main parts of the text, paragraph
    development and coherence as well as genre conventions.

    3. Post-writing.
    (a) revising content and organization,
    (b) checking for grammatical accuracy
    (c) editing for style and
    (d) proofreading and peer review.
    Benefits
    • It helps the writer overcome the blank page
    syndrome
    • It serves the writer as a guide to writing
    • It makes the writer aware of contextual
    considerations such as audience and purpose
    • It accounts for individual variation

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