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This document discusses technical writing and report writing skills. It defines technical writing as communicating specific, factual information to a defined audience for a defined purpose. Technical writing conveys information about a technical subject in a practical way to help the audience understand the topic or complete a task. The origins of technical writing date back to scientists and inventors like Da Vinci, but it grew with increasing literacy, wartime developments, and the computer revolution's need to explain new technologies. The document concludes by covering types of reports, both informal and formal.

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HUM102 Slides Lecture06

This document discusses technical writing and report writing skills. It defines technical writing as communicating specific, factual information to a defined audience for a defined purpose. Technical writing conveys information about a technical subject in a practical way to help the audience understand the topic or complete a task. The origins of technical writing date back to scientists and inventors like Da Vinci, but it grew with increasing literacy, wartime developments, and the computer revolution's need to explain new technologies. The document concludes by covering types of reports, both informal and formal.

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HUM 102

REPORT WRITING SKILLS

Lecture 06

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Previous Lecture

❑ Discussions
❑ Findings
❑ Conclusions
❑ Recommendations
❑ Appendices

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Four Skills of Language Learning

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Four Skills of Language Learning

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What is Technical Writing?

• “Involving special knowledge, language, etc., that is used


or understood by experts but usually not by others”
(Merriam-Webster Dictionary, 2015)

• “Relating to the knowledge, machines or methods used in


science and industry”
(Cambridge Dictionary, 2015)

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What is Technical Writing?

• Technical writing communicates specific and factual


information to a defined audience for a defined
purpose.

Specific
Defined Defined
Factual
Audience Purpose
Information

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What is Technical Writing?

Technical Knowledge Written


Communication

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What is Technical Writing?

Technical
Writing “Technical writing conveys
specific information about a
technical subject to a specific
audience for a specific
purpose… The words and
graphics of technical writing
Occupational Professional are meant to be practical: that
Writing Writing Writing is, to communicate a body of
factual information that will
help an audience understand a
subject or carry out a task.”

Business -Michael H. Markel


Writing

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Origin

• Recorded history: Da Vinci, Copernicus, Galileo


• Increasing literacy: need of explaining mechanical
processes
• Second World War: development of weapons
• Computer revolution: communication networks

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Conclusions

❑ Types of Report
❑ Informal Report and its Types
❑ Formal Report and its Types
❑ Additional Forms of Reports

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