GOOD MORNING

GUESS THE
GIBBERISH
(Random Sentences Edition)
APPLAUSE INK IN
DISC SKIES
answer:
A BLESSING IN DISGUISE
BEE EAT ER HOUND
THEE PUSH
answer:
BEAT AROUND THE BUSH
BET HER LAY IT DAN
EVER
answer:
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
PRAY ACHE AL EGG

answer:
BREAK A LEG
COAL EAT TEDDY

answer:
CALL IT A DAY
CHAPTER 1:
Understanding the Nature of
Technical Writing
Why do we have to be
so formal?
 It focuses on audience selection

It makes use of precise economical and

unemotional language.
What is
Technical It employs technical jargon.

Writing? It uses certain conventional and

organizational format.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION

Title: Technical Writing

Authors: Gordon H. Mills and John A. Walter
Edition: 5
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1986
Original from: The University of Michigan
Digitized: 28 January 28,2010
Length: 554 pages
 Basic Characteristics of
Technical Writing
1. Is writing about scientific 2. Is characterized by certain
subjects and about various formal elements, such as its
scientific and technical
technical subjects
associated with the vocabulary, its use of graphic
sciences. aids, and its use of
conventional report forms.
3. Is ideally characterized by the
maintenance of an attitude of
impartiality and objectivity, by
extreme care to convey
information accurately and
concisely, and by the absence of
any attempt to arouse emotion.
4. Is writing in which there is
relatively high concentration of
certain complex and important
writing techniques, in particular
description of mechanisms,
description of process, definition,
classification, and interpretation.
1 2

Technical writing is characterized by

Technical writing is writing about
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certain formal elements, such as its
scientific subjects and about
scientific and technical vocabulary,
various technical subjects
its use of graphic aids, and its use of
associated with the sciences.
conventional report forms.
3 4
Technical writing is ideally
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characterized by the maintenance of
an attitude of impartiality and
objectivity, by extreme care to convey
information accurately and concisely,
and by the absence of any attempt to
arouse emotion.
Technical writing is writing in which
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there is relatively high concentration of
certain complex and important writing
techniques, in particular description of
mechanisms, description of process,
definition, classification, and
interpretation.
SOME EXAMPLE OF TECHNICAL
WRITINGS
1 2 3

End-User Traditional Technical

Documentation Technical Writing Marketing
Communications
1. End-User
Documentation
 a user manual that accompanies a
cellphone
 a user manual teaching home
computer users
 a how-to guide for using laptops
2. Traditional
Technical Writing
 an analysis of a legal case for other lawyers
 a summary of a series of medical
experiments to be published in a journal of
medicine
 informational documents like a whitepaper
3. Technical Marketing
Communications
 informative articles for the web to show
businesses that using a particular IT
 chain email to promote a new cellphone
coming to the market
 Flyer or brochures introducing a cutting-edge
exercise tracker to the market
thank you!
Have a great day ahead^^