Technical Writing

Try this exercise and you will see that the above question is really problematic. Search the web for “what is technical writing” and you will get a variety of definitions. These can be categorized as follows:

Technical writing results in the production of a document. This is a wide term. However, in technical writing we will use the term “document” to define the specific output of a technical writing Task or Project.

Here are some characteristics of this term:

1) A document is a text written to achieve a specific purpose. This purpose shall be defined in the next section.

2) A document can be in hard copies (printed form) or can be in electronic form.