The goal of technical writing is to enable
TECHNICAL WRITING ●
readers to use an innovation or
LESSON 1: What is Technical understand a process or concept.
Writing?
Technical writing is communication written for Important Factors/ Functions:
and about business and industry, focusing on 1. In many different types of work, writing
products and services: how to manufacture, constitutes an important part of the
market, manage them, deliver them & use everyday workload.
them. 2. They facilitate communication with
co-workers, clients and supervisors that
Technical writing is Resume, Instructional is inside and outside the workplace.
manual, Memo and meeting agendas. It 3. They are necessary for a successful
does not focus on poetic images, describe career.
personal experiences, or report. Not a: 4. Writing skills contribute to saving time
Literature, Essay, journalism. and money.
It is direct, informative, clear, and concise
language written specifically for an identified
Five Components of Writing
audience. The content must be accurate and 1. Development - ex. anecdotes,
complete with NO exaggerations. To deliver the testimony, data and research.
intended message, the text must be objective 2. Grammar errors often can hide in
and persuasive WITHOUT being argumentative. longer essays but those same errors
Developing technical documents that meet these loom large in one page memos or
requirements and standard guidelines is time letters.
consuming. 3. Organization topic sentences are less
important. Transitional words and
Technical writing is written in the work phrases in an essay can be replaced by
environment (work hours) for: an enumerated list.
- Supervisors - Colleagues 4. Style word usage, sentence structure
- Subordinates - Vendors and paragraph length.
- Customers 5. Document design the physical layout
of the correspondence.
Importance:
Connotative - indirect and may refer to
● Communication is not just from one
different meanings just like creative writing and
emitter to one receiver but rather from
Expressive writing. Ex. Blue - feeling sad
one to many.
Denotative - is a literal meaning or a dictionary
● Oral Communication may fall short
definition. Ex. Blue is one of the primary colors.
when we need to transmit the
information technical documents
require. **Technical writing is NOT literature. It is an
● Students will write essays while working instructional manual, memo listing or meeting
on their college degrees and even be agenda, letter from vendor to client,
asked to write essays on their job recommendation report.
application. However, once the job
begins, essays end.
TECHNICAL WRITING ●
readers to use an innovation or
LESSON 1: What is Technical understand a process or concept.
Writing?
Technical writing is communication written for Important Factors/ Functions:
and about business and industry, focusing on 1. In many different types of work, writing
products and services: how to manufacture, constitutes an important part of the
market, manage them, deliver them & use everyday workload.
them. 2. They facilitate communication with
co-workers, clients and supervisors that
Technical writing is Resume, Instructional is inside and outside the workplace.
manual, Memo and meeting agendas. It 3. They are necessary for a successful
does not focus on poetic images, describe career.
personal experiences, or report. Not a: 4. Writing skills contribute to saving time
Literature, Essay, journalism. and money.
It is direct, informative, clear, and concise
language written specifically for an identified
Five Components of Writing
audience. The content must be accurate and 1. Development - ex. anecdotes,
complete with NO exaggerations. To deliver the testimony, data and research.
intended message, the text must be objective 2. Grammar errors often can hide in
and persuasive WITHOUT being argumentative. longer essays but those same errors
Developing technical documents that meet these loom large in one page memos or
requirements and standard guidelines is time letters.
consuming. 3. Organization topic sentences are less
important. Transitional words and
Technical writing is written in the work phrases in an essay can be replaced by
environment (work hours) for: an enumerated list.
- Supervisors - Colleagues 4. Style word usage, sentence structure
- Subordinates - Vendors and paragraph length.
- Customers 5. Document design the physical layout
of the correspondence.
Importance:
Connotative - indirect and may refer to
● Communication is not just from one
different meanings just like creative writing and
emitter to one receiver but rather from
Expressive writing. Ex. Blue - feeling sad
one to many.
Denotative - is a literal meaning or a dictionary
● Oral Communication may fall short
definition. Ex. Blue is one of the primary colors.
when we need to transmit the
information technical documents
require. **Technical writing is NOT literature. It is an
● Students will write essays while working instructional manual, memo listing or meeting
on their college degrees and even be agenda, letter from vendor to client,
asked to write essays on their job recommendation report.
application. However, once the job
begins, essays end.
