COM101

• Technical writing is accurate when it deals with facts that are completely true
• Technical writing

  • Uses complex, long, specific, and grammatically correct language structures
• Technical writing


  • Should follow the prescribed writing standards which includes structure, pattern, format, and language
• Graphs and illustrations are necessary in technical writing to support the written information provided
• Technical writing


  Should be practical in the way that it functions according to its purpose
• Forms of technical writing

  • Instructions
  • Sequenced information (e.g., user manuals and laboratory reports)
• Language used in technical writing is not conversational and can be easily understood by everyone
• Technical writing presents facts and information honestly and directly
• Technical writing has the ability to command or to enforce something on anyone
• Technical writing must be presentable, without any grammatical or typographical errors