Technical Writing Process
Technical Writing Process
Writing
Process
1. Planning
2. Analyzing your Audience
3. Analyzing your Purpose
4. Generating Ideas about your Topic
5. Researching Additional Information
6. Organizing and Outlining your Document
7. Devising a Schedule and a Budget
8. Drafting
9. Revising
PLANNING
When? What?
On Institute a ?
site? health-
Where? Who? ?
promotion
program
At health ?
club?
Why? How?
Research it
Increase ourslves?
productivity? Reduce
premiums Retain a
Reduce consultant Advice form
illness, injury insurance co.?
Why
Who When
Despedida Party
Where
What
6. Branching.
Institute a health- promotion program?
?
Company Commercial On site? At health Increase Reduce
sponsored? Program? club? productivity premiums
Retain a Research it
consultant? ourselves? Immed Pilot
Advice from iately? program? Reduce
insurance illness,
Study
co.? injury
it first?
Despedida
(Merriam-Webster.com)
Sample More specifically, on March 4,
20XX, there was a delay in
starting Phase II of our
Cause project because you did not
place the special order for
flasks and pipettes.
1. Grouping
Similar
items
2. Ordering the items in the groups.
In some cases, ordering items in each
group is simple. For instance, if an item
precedes another in time or is more
important, it should come first.
occurs when an
item is made a
subunit of a unit k
which it does not
belong.
5. Choosing an outline format
Traditional Outline Decimal Outline
I. 1.
A. 1.1
1.
2. 1.1.1
B. 1.1.2
1. 1.2
a.
1.2.1
b.
(1) 1.2.2
(2) 2.
(a) 2.1 etc
(b)
DEVISING A SCHEDULE AND A BUDGET
A first or preliminary
form of any writing,
subject to revision,
etc. (dictionary.com)
Get Start with the
comfortable easiest topic
Draft quickly Don’t stop to get more
information or to
revise
Try invisible Stop in the middle
writing of a section
TEMPLATES & STYLES
Template Style
Advantages Disadvantages
❖Timesaver ❖Unoriginal
❖Easy to use ❖Basic
❖Auto Saved ❖Unchallenging
❖Organized ❖Restrictive
REVISING
• Let it sit.
• Read it aloud.
• Use checklists.
• Spell Checkers
• Grammar Checkers
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