What is Technical writing:
Technical Writing:
Technical writing is communication for and about business and industry.
It entirely focuses on products and services- how to manufacture them,
Market them, manage them, deliver them and then use them.
Technical writing is basically composed in the work environment for supervisors,
colleagues, subordinates, vendors or sellers and customers. There are different types of
correspondance which can be expected to write as a professional technical writer, an
employee at a company, or a customer. They are as follows:
1. Memos and electronic mails (e-mail): To set agendas, meetings and answer
The questions.
2. Letters: To sell, complain, hire, fire,for asking and answering questions and
And contents of attachments are exlpained.
3. Reports: It includes job travel incidents,Recommendation of different actions,
Progress reports on ongoing projects, feasibilty reports and to document
Meeting minutes
4. Proposals: If any problem arises in an orgnization, to analyse that problem and sort
out the alternative to resolve the problem. That analyst can be one or more than one.
Selection of best alternative for the problem.Reports of ongoing projects, feasibility
reports, progress reports of different projects.
5. Websites: Usage of multiscreened, internet based hyperlinked communication to
sell and inform. It is a communication basically sometimes for
introduction of a company and sometimes for the introduction of a new
product by already existing company in the market.
6. Fliers: They are handbills to sell and inform, using short and brief, single-sided
Document.
7. Resumes: It is also known as C.V. It helps you to find a job. The stronger the written
Communication inresume, the stronger will be the response from any
employer.
8. Brouchers: It is also for selling or informing about a new product, using six to eight
Panel (back and front) foldouts.
9. Newsletters: To report on corporate activities to both employees and stakeholders.
Any achievement or activity done by any organization is informed to
The public to develop the know how or repute of particular organization.
For example. Institute of Charted accountant pakistan ( ICAP) publishes a
a weekly newsletters which includes the front audit done by different
charted accountant firms, the newly registered accountants who has
recently qualified charted accountant course, different seminars or
conferences conducted by the institute of ICAP.
10. Online help screens: It is to explain, inform, and define, using drop-down menus and
Pop-ups. The best example is of virtual university in which each
and every help is given by the tutor on line if any problem is faced
by the student regarding the subject.
11. User manuals: It is used for communicating the customer by explaining the
Steps in a proceedure of using a specific product.
12. Technical description:For explaining the parts of mechanism, tool, piece of equipment
, or any product.
