Introduction: Technical Writing and This Course
Examples, Cases & Models: Index
Applications of Technical Writing
- Business correspondence and resumes
- Technical reports: structure and process
- Types of technical reports: an overview
- Business plans
- Proposals
- Progress reports
- Instructions
- User guides
- Organizational policies and procedures
- Recommendation and feasibility reports
- Abstracts, introductions, and conclusions
- Oral presentations
Document Design
- Book design overview
- Page design overview
- Headings
- Lists
- Special notices
- Graphics and tables
- Report format and final packaging
- Highlighting and emphasis
- Indexing
Processes and Guidelines in Technical Writing
- Writing process: from audience to rough draft
- Audience analysis
- Task analysis
- Power-revision techniques
- Libraries, documentation, cross-referencing
- Basic patterns and elements of the sentence
- Common grammar, usage, punctuation problems
- Common spelling problems
- Strategies for peer-reviewing and team-writing
- Information structures