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Technical writing is an essential skill for 21st century teachers to teach, especially for students in STEM fields who will need to communicate technical information through manuals and reports. Technical writing involves documenting technical processes through reports, summaries, and memos. It is important for students to learn technical writing to prepare them for careers that may require writing instructions, manuals, or reports. The example of a poorly written DVD manual showed how important it is for technical writing to be clear and understandable for customers. As a future STEM teacher, the author will guide students to think about effective technical communication and writing documents that customers can easily understand and use. Mastering technical writing helps people adapt to new technologies, communicate effectively at

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629 F Nepomuceno ST., Quiapo, Manila

Technical writing is an essential skill for 21st century teachers to teach, especially for students in STEM fields who will need to communicate technical information through manuals and reports. Technical writing involves documenting technical processes through reports, summaries, and memos. It is important for students to learn technical writing to prepare them for careers that may require writing instructions, manuals, or reports. The example of a poorly written DVD manual showed how important it is for technical writing to be clear and understandable for customers. As a future STEM teacher, the author will guide students to think about effective technical communication and writing documents that customers can easily understand and use. Mastering technical writing helps people adapt to new technologies, communicate effectively at

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The National Teachers College

629 F Nepomuceno St., Quiapo, Manila


TECHNICAL WRITING
Submitted by: ARCIBAL, Miriam Prof. Evangelina Mallilin
Correspondence

TASK 1 : Writing a reflection essay on appreciating Technical Writing Skills as a


21st century teacher.

Technical Writing Skills as an Essential Part in Career

There is vast method that people communicate which can be either in


verbal or written that requires different skills. The message conveyed may be
subjective or objective and used in different discipline such as literature or
denotative writing—as long as the main purpose is to deliver ideas successfully.
Technical writing is one of the examples how communication is done, in the
academic or corporate industry. This writing is defined as the process of
documenting of technical activity that includes reports, executive summary
statements, and memorandum. Basically, technical information is conveyed in
writing at work or information that people need in order to achieve certain task.
However, in the constantly changing modernity, students must possess this skill in
order for them to be prepared once they have entered in the workforce. Thus,
this essay will present the importance of technical writing in teaching as well as
my reflection in this matter.

In the near future, I will become a teacher myself and my specific goal is to
teach students who are in the field of Science, Technology, Engineering, and
Mathematics (STEM) seeing that these field is more likely to be exposed in
technical writing. Also, these students probably the ones who will encounter and
invent technological devices and machines which requires communication skills
particularly in writing manuals and reports. Besides, good communication is also
an integral part of STEM career. We can also look at how scientists before, they
have expressed their studies and reports in a clear, sometimes concise, and
interesting manner, and it takes good writing skills to do this. After all, how will
readers of today be able to read a report, find it engaging, and grasp the
material if it is not written well? Hence, teachers must guide students in how to ‘tell
a story’ in their reports.

Few years ago, my professor in English for Academic Purposes present us


an example of poorly written part of instruction manual of a DVD player which
states “Do not use the same power source with high power motor electrical over
the limited power motor of the wiring board. When the DVD have unusual sound
and smell such as splintering and poop, please witch off the power line as soon
as possible. Note; Please do not bind the power line is too high will arouse the
unstable of the voltage and damage to the DVD, data, and also the equipment
which is circumscribed, even result in the fire hazard. Dangerous:” If I were the
customer who bought the DVD, I don’t know if I would laugh or get mad when I
cannot understand what was written in order for me to know the safety
precaution in using the product. In that case, teachers need to emphasize how
students think in a way that has customer communication: The instructions that
students will create for their project (or product) may be the first impression the
customer has with their work. What would the customer felt about their purchase
when they began to read these kinds of instructions? What impression will they
think before plugging the DVD player? The key to effective communication is to
guide them to learn writing technical documents that definitely will carry those
skills in their future career.

To sum it up, technical writing helps an individual to better understand and


adapt to new waves of technology as well as delivering ideas in a workplace
through formal letters that will affect every aspect of student’s lives. It also helps
to improve our critical thinking skills in comprehending complex content into a
simple one that allow individuals to increase the feeling of adequacy in life and
increase resilience to cope with the challenges of everyday life, and that is the
technically empowering aspect of technical writing.

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