Technical and Scientific Writing
TECHNICAL WRITING
DEFINITION:
• Technical writing is your act of communicating, through writing, whatever you think and feel about your job, business, industry, profession, and organization. • “On-the-job writing” • Traditionally, technical writing is mainly producing written outputs about these fields of knowledge: Science, Technology and Engineering. • Etymology: ▪ technikos (Greek), techne (French) – art, craft or skill ▪ teks (Indo-European) – to weave or fabricate • According to Michel Foucault, technical writing is the “rhetoric of the world of work” of commence and production.
CHARACTERISTICS OR PROPERTIES OF TECHNICAL WRITING:
1. Accurate • It should deal with facts that are completely true, instead of things whose identity, appearance, or measurements are so difficult to determine.
2. Clear • It is clear if in one reading, readers will be able to get a quick understanding of the main message or point of the whole composition.
3. Formal • There are writing standards that cover the structure, pattern, format and language of technical writing.
4. Graphical • Graphs like tables, charts, figures, diagrams, maps, pictures and other illustrations are absolutely necessary in technical writing because technical writing deals with things appealing to certain group of people or uses words expressing specialized meanings or ideas known only to specific group of people (jargons).
5. Objective • This is shown to prevent showing off the writer’s thinking, personal meaning or emotional attitude about the subject matter. Results should be based on environmental observations or sensory experiences.
6. Practical • Written output should be applicable in everyday living.
7. Procedural • The presentation of facts and information should be systematized (step-by-step method) or in a methodical manner.
8. Special • It will be special if it is
DEFINITION:
• Technical writing is your act of communicating, through writing, whatever you think and feel about your job, business, industry, profession, and organization. • “On-the-job writing” • Traditionally, technical writing is mainly producing written outputs about these fields of knowledge: Science, Technology and Engineering. • Etymology: ▪ technikos (Greek), techne (French) – art, craft or skill ▪ teks (Indo-European) – to weave or fabricate • According to Michel Foucault, technical writing is the “rhetoric of the world of work” of commence and production.
CHARACTERISTICS OR PROPERTIES OF TECHNICAL WRITING:
1. Accurate • It should deal with facts that are completely true, instead of things whose identity, appearance, or measurements are so difficult to determine.
2. Clear • It is clear if in one reading, readers will be able to get a quick understanding of the main message or point of the whole composition.
3. Formal • There are writing standards that cover the structure, pattern, format and language of technical writing.
4. Graphical • Graphs like tables, charts, figures, diagrams, maps, pictures and other illustrations are absolutely necessary in technical writing because technical writing deals with things appealing to certain group of people or uses words expressing specialized meanings or ideas known only to specific group of people (jargons).
5. Objective • This is shown to prevent showing off the writer’s thinking, personal meaning or emotional attitude about the subject matter. Results should be based on environmental observations or sensory experiences.
6. Practical • Written output should be applicable in everyday living.
7. Procedural • The presentation of facts and information should be systematized (step-by-step method) or in a methodical manner.
8. Special • It will be special if it is