Carolina M's Professionals who do Technical Writing

What is technical writing? Technical writing is a formal writer that uses technology and explains the technology to technical and nontechnical audiences.

This type of writing is common in most of the electronics that you buy and need to build or put together all the parts, I am the person that always puts those papers aside and put the parts together without writing, but other people find these technical instructions very important to succeed in the product that they are building.

Five Tips for Technical Writers

1. Get more mileage out of your headings

This should be a phase that clearly summarizes every section.

2. Use present tense

By doing this, it would bring more clarity to the paper

3. Identify the actors in your sentences

This is one of the most relevant to technical writing

4. Follow a task-based approach

Break down into parts, so you can go step by step without a mass of detail.

5. Thinking is writing too

Get away from your keyboard, this will help you to gater more ideas.

I think that these tips not only help on technical writing but also on professional writing, these tips are great when it comes to writing a paper. Also, I never knew that the people that wrote all of those step by step manuals needed to know so much about technical writing.

YouTube - Business Writing for Engineers and Technical Professionals

As you have seen in the video, not only english majors are the only ones that need to know technical writing. This person talks about the field of engineering which I thought before that you only needed to know formulas and be good in math, but the reality is that even engineers need to know how to write a report or a proposal.

Reference

Williams, Joseph M., Style: Toward Clarity and Grace, University of Chicago Press, 1990