TYPES OF TECHNICAL

WRITING
 TYPES OF TECHNICAL WRITING

1. LEGAL - Legal writing involves the analysis of fact

patterns and presentation of arguments in documents
such as legal memoranda and briefs.
2. MEDICAL – Medical technical writing is a broad field, it implies
writing a wide range of medicine- and healthcare-related documents,
including articles, marketing copy, and educational materials. Those
professionals who write such a content called medical technical
writers. Some medical technical writers are writing for a professional
audience, others focus their writings on the educated layman
3. SCIENTIFIC – Scientific writing is a technical form of writing that
is designed to communicate scientific information to other scientists.
Depending on the specific scientific genre—a journal article, a
scientific poster, or a research proposal,
4. MECHANICAL - Engineers often believe technical writing to be
highly-detailed documentation for fellow engineers using technical
documents like reports, manuals, proposals, specifications etc.
5. BUSINESS - The main objective of this is to be useful – to inform,
help make a purchase decision, build something or operate
equipment. Mistakes can be costly, even dangerous, so the language
for both needs to be clear, concise, unambiguous and accurate. We
sacrifice elegant prose for clarity. Wordiness, repetition and
unfamiliar words that the audience may not understand do not belong
in either business or technical writing. Reports, proposals, emails etc.
are used in business technical writing.
6. EXPOSITORY – It is writing about the technical information of
specific study and discipline like scholarly articles, essays, textbooks
etc.
 WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN TECHNICAL WRITING
AND
CREATIVE WRITING?
Creative writing is to entertain the readers and
move them emotionally. Technical writing is to
train and educate the readers and help them
accomplish a given goal by following a set of
well-ordered procedural steps.