THE TECHNICAL

WRITING PROCESS
Stage 1: Pre-Writing Stage

EFFECTIVE IF IT RESULTS
FROM CLEAR OBJECTIVE
OR PURPOSE AND
ORDERLY PRESENTATION
OF FACTS, OPINIONS OR
IDEAS THAT ARE CLOSELY
RELATED TO SUCH
SPECIFIC PURPOSE.

WHEN IS A WRITING
PROCESS BASED ON CLEAR
AND CRITICAL THINKING?
If

it was able to comply with the

requirements of effective writing as it
demands an active kind of thinking where
the writer has to analyze, synthesize and
criticize various kinds of knowledge and
then create something new out of these
various kinds of knowledge.

HOW DOES CRITICAL

THINKING VARY BETWEEN
READING AND WRITING?
Thinking

in reading is a passive process

while it is considered an active process in
writing.
A writer has to intensively consider the
kind of ideas and the manner by which
these thoughts and feelings should appear
on the paper to yield a coherent or wellorganized composition.

THE TECHNICAL WRITING

PROCESS
Utilizing

higher order thinking alongside

purposive and developmental reading skills for
the advancement of technical writing styles and
techniques as a writer goes through three main
writing stages of pre-writing, writing and postwriting.
stages are also known as P3 Planning,
Packaging and Perfecting.

These

 From

the first stage up to the last writing stage

ones writing act immerses him into a problemsolving technique where he would experience all
the thinking acts of interpreting, analyzing,
evaluating, creating and appreciating.

The

effectiveness of a writers technical written

work greatly depends on how he performs in each
of the mentioned stages.

STAGE 1:
PRE-WRITING
STAGE
Planning is the key in laying the
foundation of ones succeeding
writing acts.

THINGS TO CONSIDER DURING THE PREWRITING OR PLANNING STAGE

Purpose

> Setting a clear direction to the composition and

writers intention whether to inform, inquire,
recommend, buy, sell, instruct, invite and the likes.
* What is the writers purpose?
* What does he intend to tell his readers?

THINGS TO CONSIDER DURING THE PREWRITING OR PLANNING STAGE

Topic

or Subject Matter

> During the Planning Stage, the Ideation or

Inventive Phase plays an integral step as the writer has
to think very carefully of the topic he wishes to write
including the factors or ideas that will support and
further explain the particular matter, issue, concern,
thought or problem he wants to raise.
* What is the composition about?
* What message does the writer wants to tell his
readers?

THINGS TO CONSIDER DURING THE PREWRITING OR PLANNING STAGE

Readers

or Audience

> A writer must be highly knowledgeable and cognizant

about the kind of reader he addresses his composition to
as the effectiveness or success of a report depends on how
it appeals to the readers.
> The You Attitude or Reader-Oriented style is a
technique in which writing from a readers point of view
rather than the writers own which enables him to adopt
the purpose, tone and readability level of his composition
as to the readers in order to figure out an appropriate
writing style fit to serve the readers interests, needs,
mentality, likes and dislikes.

THINGS TO CONSIDER DURING THE PREWRITING OR PLANNING STAGE

> Knowing the specific roles or positions of the readers in the
company enables a writer to compose a technical report in a
manner that is responsive to their needs, expectations and
standards.
> Types of readers:
@ Primary Audience decision makers

@ Secondary Audience implementers of decisions and

recommendations
@ Immediate Audience transmitters of

givers of

decisions through

@ Nominal Audience names mentioned in the report but

significant participation in the production of the report

* To whom is the composition for?

* Who is the technical report addressed to?

different users
have no

THINGS TO CONSIDER DURING THE PREWRITING OR PLANNING STAGE

Content

> A great deal of knowledge greatly depends on the

writers sensory experience and perceptions relevant to
the ideas, facts or opinions the writer has gathered
through the Ideation or Inventive phase.
* What the writer wants his readers to know about
the topic or subject matter?

PRE-WRITING STRATEGIES
Brainstorming
Free

writing or Looping
Interview
Questionnaire Survey
Reading

PRE-WRITING STRATEGIES

Listing

Speculating
Semantic

Outlining
Semantic

Mapping or Drawing

Webbing or Clustering
Electronic Devices

STAGE 1:
PRE-WRITING
STAGE
End of Stage 1