Technical Writing

Written by Lizz

Technical writing is a style of writing that tailors the writing to the audience. It is generally used to explain a product, a procedure or a specific way of doing something. The key to technical writing is creating a document that delivers the information to the audience so that they can best use it. That means assessing what the audience already knows about the subject and tailoring the language for that level of knowledge.

Effective technical writing will take into account the type of jargon that the audience is likely to know. For beginners, more of the document will be devoted to explaining the jargon than in a document meant for people with a more advanced knowledge of the subject matter.

Technical writing is expected to be a comprehensive way of explaining how to do something or how to use a specific object. Each step is written in the order that it should be performed so that no other document is needed. Technical writers also create an index that can define some of the words used. Another index might be a list of items that are used in performing the task. Most technical writing also contains a section that is devoted to problems that often come up and what the solutions are.

If technical writing is done correctly, it will be easily readable by the audience it was meant for. It will answer all the questions that audience has and it will be the only reference the audience needs to perform the task.

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