Five Steps To Successful Writing

• Writing, like most professional tasks, requires solid preparation.

  Preparation
• In fact, adequate preparation is as important as writing a draft.

  Preparation
• In preparation for writing, your goal is to accomplish the following four major tasks:

  1. Establish your primary purpose 2. Assess your audience (or readers) and the context 3. Determine the scope of your coverage 4. Select the appropriate medium
• Conducting an extensive investigation for a major proposal—through interviewing, library and Internet research, and careful note-taking—or simply checking a company Web site and jotting down points before you send an e-mail to a colleague.

  Research
• Methods of Research

  Primary Research and Secondary Research
• In research there is two ways. what are those?

  Methods of Research and Sources of Information
• If without this the material gathered during your research will be incoherent to your readers.

  Organization
• To organize information effectively, you need to determine the best way to structure your ideas; that is, you must choose a primary method of development

  Organization
• Sequential method of development

  Organization
• Chronological method of development

  Organization
• Cause-and effect method of development

  Organization
• Outlining

  Organization
• When you have established your purpose, your readers’ needs, and your scope and have completed your research and your outline, you will be well prepared to write a first draft.

  Writing
• Expand your outline into paragraphs, without worrying about grammar, refinements of language usage, or punctuation.


  Writing
• The clearer finished writing seems to the reader, the more effort the writer has likely put into its

  Revision
• If you have followed the steps of the writing process to this point, you will have a rough draft that needs to be revised

  Revision
• it requires a different frame of mind than does writing the draft. During this step the write need to be eager to find and correct faults and be honest

  Revision
• Be hard on yourself for the benefit of your readers

  Revision
• Read and evaluate the draft as if you were a reader seeing it for the first time

  Revision
• What is the goal of technical communication?

  to clearly and effectively explain something
• A good technical writer tells you exactly what you need to know when you need to know it

  True
• Technical documentation allows the end user to quickly reference and digest new information, which helps companies enhance the user experience for their products and services.

  True
• The goal of technical communicators is to clearly ad effectively explain something so that the end user can easily understand and implement the information.

  True