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Assignment in Technical Writing
Assignment in Technical Writing
Technical writing is a type of writing where the author is writing about a particular subject that
requires direction, instruction, or explanation.
Technical Writing is straightforward, easy to understand explanation and or instructions dealing
with particular subject. It is an efficient clearway of explaining something and how it works.
the focus for technical-writing is not necessarily career as a technical writer but an introduction to the
kinds of writing skills we need in practically any technically oriented professional job.
To inform
It is written to make another person understand or to do something. It is designed to fulfill a need to tell and
a need to know.
To analyze events and their implications
It will explain how a certain systems failed. This system may include education, socioeconomic, political
and the needed change.
To persuade and influence decisions
It will show how a business or an industry succeeds.
Subject Matter
A technical writer must have a thorough knowledge of the subject that he is to write about. If the report is
on the result of a technical experiment, the writer who writes the report should explain what the problem is
all about , what causes the problem and how the problem is solved.