Technical Composition
- Page ID
- 66267
Technical writing is writing or drafting technical communication used in technical and occupational fields, such as computer hardware and software, engineering, chemistry, aeronautics, robotics, finance, medical, consumer electronics, biotechnology, and forestry. Technical writing encompasses the largest sub-field in technical communication. The Society for Technical Communication defines technical communication as any form of communication that exhibits one or more of the following characteristics:
- communicating about technical or specialized topics, such as computer applications, medical procedures, or environmental regulations;
- communicating by using technology, such as web pages, help files, or social media sites; or
- providing instructions about how to do something, regardless of how technical the task is.
- Book: Open Technical Writing - An Open-Access Text for Instruction in Technical and Professional Writing (Pope)
- This book presents technical writing as an approach to researching and carrying out writing that centers on technical subject matter. Technical writing doesn’t work off knowing the one true right way of doing things—there is no magic report template out there that will always work. Instead, the focus is on offering students a series of approaches they can use to map out their situations and do research accordingly.
- Book: Technical Communication (Milbourne, Regan, Livingston, and Johan)
- This text explores the principles of technical communication. In addition to producing clear and easy-to-read documents, students will also examine the rhetorical dimensions of writing for technical environments. The class begins by analyzing the argumentative and stylistic conventions that govern technical communication. Through this critical analysis, students determine which conventions constitute the field’s “best practices” and will learn to incorporate these within their own compositions.
- Book: Technical Writing (DeSilva et al.)
- A textbook focusing on writing in the workplace, with an emphasis on audience analysis, writing for specific situations, document design, research processes, and visual aids.
- Front Matter
- 1: Professional Communications
- 2: Audience Analysis
- 3: Proposals
- 4: Information Literacy
- 5: Citations and Plagiarism
- 6: Progress Reports
- 7: Outlines
- 8: Creating and Integrating Graphics
- 9: Ethics in Technical Writing
- 10: Technical Reports: Components and Design
- 11: Basic Design and Readability in Publications
- 12: Employment Materials
- 13: Communicating across Cultures
- 14: Thinking about Writing
- Back Matter
- Effective Technical Writing in the Information Age (Schall)
- Whether planning a paper, running a grammar check, completing a report, composing an email, puzzling over a usage or grammar issue, or writing a resume or online portfolio, you are bound to find the material and examples you need in Style for Students Online.
- Front Matter
- 1: Improving Your Style
- 2: Punctuation, Mechanics, Capitalization, and Spelling
- 3: Commonly Misused Terms and Phrases
- 4: Equations, Figures, and Tables
- 5: Using Sources
- 6: Writing Documents for Classes
- 7: Presenting Yourself in Person and Online
- 8: Resumes
- 9: Professional Letters
- 10: Journal Articles about Writing
- Back Matter
Contributors and Attributions
- Wikipedia - https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_writing