Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Technical Writing:: Real-World Writing in The 21 Century
Technical Writing:: Real-World Writing in The 21 Century
Technical Writing:: Real-World Writing in The 21 Century
Technical Writing:
Real-World Writing
in the 21st Century
WVDE
WEST VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Essential Questions: entury
What is Technical
Writing?
• Business Writing
• Workplace Writing
• Professional Writing
• Informational Writing
Health/Physical Education
Course Technical Writing
Aerobics Action Plan, Graph, Chart, Observation Report,
Letter of Request, Product Description, Product
Comparison, Process Explanation
What assignments
are appropriate
at what grade
levels?
• Incident Report
• Travel Guide
• Field Test Report
• Newsletter
• Letter of Inquiry
• Catalog Product Description
• Oral Presentation
• Safety Guidelines
• Informational Poster
• Magazine Article
• Survey Questionnaire
• Itinerary
• Informative Summary
• Oral Presentation
• Letter of Request
• Process Explanation
• Product Description
• Flyer
• Pamphlet
• Progress Report
• Instructions
• Oral Presentation
Persuasive Proposal
Marketing Advertisement
WEST VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Many new technological advances have been entury
made in the way Americans listen to music. CD
players replaced record players because they
were more portable. In the past few years MP3
players have become very popular. You are a
consumer advocate investigating which of these
devices is the best value. You will write an article
for your magazine, Consumer Guide, in which you
express your findings and recommend one of
these products to your readers.
Product Description
Product Comparison
Magazine Article
WEST VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Many new technological advances have been
made in the way Americans listen to music. entury
CD players replaced record players because
they were more portable. In the past few years
MP3 players have become very popular. You
are a consumer advocate investigating which
of these devices is the best value. You will
write an article for your magazine, Consumer
Guide, in which you express your findings and
recommend one of these products to your
readers.
Format
Audience
Topic
Purpose
WEST VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Your Turn
• Decide on a type of Technical Writing you could entury
use in your classroom.
100% Accuracy
is Expected.
Questions
and
Comments
Things I learned
Things I confirmed