Features of Technical Writing

Technical writing is sometimes defined as converting the complex ones into simpler ones. It is the form of writing in which the information is represented in such a concise manner that audience can easily get the point without getting confused. Nowadays technical writing plays an important role in every engineering field, whether it is aerospace, electronics or any other engineering field. It can be seen that every engineer is asked to write various technical reports in their respective fields where technical writing plays a major role. It helps the person to present his ideas in a well-organized manner, as lack of organization can mislead the audience. Through technical writing, the scientists, engineers and we all learn to present our views in a more logical and sequential manner. It avoids exaggeration or any other unnecessary literary devices and allows us to present the information in a more concise manner.

We can take up few features for better understanding. We can take example of unity and coherence.

UNITY- Unity refers to singularity which is one of the main features of technical writing. That is the entire paragraph focus about a single idea whether it’s the first or last sentence.

COHERENCE- If we talk about coherence, it refers to showing a proper inter linkage between various elements in the paragraph using various orders of presentation such as deductive order, inductive order, linear order and chronological order.

Example- Narration of an historical event. If we want to give review regarding an historical event then we will be going to use chronological order.

General and Technical writing serve totally different purpose. We can say that general piece of writing is meant for general public. It is more about arousing the interest of the reader such as writing your thoughts and opinions on a social issue or writing a prose which is totally different from technical writing as it may be complex in nature, whereas technical writing has sole objective of making the reader understand a topic in a straight manner. At simple level we can take examples of a cookbook full of recipes or an instruction manual on how to operate mobiles as technical writing. It includes textbooks of science subjects, business writings and many other things that common public may not be able to understand. Technical writing should always be clear and concise. It should be helpful for the readers it is intended for.

So it can be proved from these points that these two forms of writing are totally different from each other.

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