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Technical writing

Technical writing should be goal-oriented. It should convey information clearly and include no extraneous material. It should help the reader to find essential information. It shold have a specific format which allows the reader to quickly locate everything in an organized fashion.
You should consider:

  • purpose of document
  • intended audience
  • context

If the audience cannot use, apply or understand the information presented then the author has failed

Purpose. What is the ultimate goal? This should be practical, the purpose determines the format of your paper. Usually:

  1. Title
  2. Abstract
  3. Introduction
  4. Body
  5. Results
  6. Discussion
  7. Conclusion
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. References
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PILOT - Technical writing by Marion Kelt, GCU, Vince Ricci, CIEE, Joe SChall, PennState University and Glynis Perkin, Loughborough University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://www.slideshare.net/tokyovince/introduction-to-technical-writing-4305074 http://www.slideshare.net/engCETL/technical-report-writing-handout https://www.e-education.psu.edu/styleforstudents/c1_p15.html .