TECHNICAL COMMUNICATIONS AND ITS PURPOSE

“Technical writing conveys specific

information about a technical
subject to a specific audience for a
specific purpose.”

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 TECHNICAL VS. CREATIVE
Items Technical Creative
Content factual, straight-forward imaginative, symbolic

Audience specific general

Purpose inform, instruct entertain, provoke, inspire

Style formal, standard informal, artistic

Tone objective subjective

Vocabulary specialized general, evocative

Organization sequential, systematic arbitrary, artistic

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 THE CHALLENGE

• Too often technical writing has a flat style making

documents difficult and tedious to read.
• There's no reason why technical writing
shouldn't be lively and interesting.

The real challenge is to express

complex ideas simply.

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 TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION IN TWO WAYS

First: Second:
the process of a set of applications —
making and the documents you
sharing technical write and the
information in the presentations you
workplace deliver

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 Technical Communication is the process of
finding, using and sharing information.

Technical Writers create, design, and transmit technical

information so that people can understand it easily and use it
safely, effectively, and efficiently.

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The focus of this class is to help you improve your skills in the
THE FOCUS
The Process of Technical Communication:
- Finding information and developing ideas on your own and
with others

The Applications of Technical Communication:

- reports, blogs, memos

TECHNICAL COMMUNICATIONS AND ITS PURPOSE

The focus of this class is to help you improve your skills in the
THE FOCUS

The Techniques that skilled communicators use:

- Analyze audience and purpose

- Create and find the best information on the subject
- Arrange information skillfully to meet the audience needs and
preferences
- Deliver information effectively using the most appropriate
applications

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Characteristics of Technical Communication

➢ It addresses particular readers. It creates a reader

profile.
➢ It helps readers solve problems. It help readers
learn something or carry out a task.
➢ It reflects the organization’s goals and culture.
For it secures funding and reach new clients.

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➢ It is produced collaboratively. Teams create and
produce more-complicated documents.

➢ It uses design to increase readability.

Uses design features –typography, spacing, color to make
the document look attractive and professional, help the
reader navigate the document and help the reader
understand the document.

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➢ It consists of words or images or both.

✓ Make the document more interesting and appealing

to readers
✓ Communicate and reinforce difficult concepts
✓ Communicate instructions and descriptions of
objects and processes
✓ Communicate large amounts of quantifiable data
✓ Communicate with nonnative speakers

TECHNICAL COMMUNICATIONS AND ITS PURPOSE

 IT IS THE TYPE OF EVERYDAY WRITING THAT
SURROUNDS US FROM THE TIME WE WAKE
UNTIL WE CLIMB IN BED AT NIGHT.

• Directions on the toothpaste tube

• Nutrition benefits on the cereal box
• Business letters and catalogs that come in the mail
• Written instructions for assembling a new product
• Tax receipts and notices
• Product safety information

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