Effective Technical Writing

What is Technical writing?

• Everyday writing that surrounds us

• Document that presents information in an organized format

• Written or audiovisual record with discrete entries arranged by date

• Writing, typically fiction or poetry,

When developing a comprehensive Technical writing, what is the first item on the list?

• References

• Contents

• Title page

• Findings

Engineers spend between 1/3 or 1/2 of their work time engaged in technical writing. Choose 1 example of technical reports example?

• Love letter

• Fried chicken recipe

• Progress reports

• Novels

Select one of Golden rules of technical writing?

• Copy and paste

• Know your audience

• Write blind

• Inconsistent

Select one of effective technical report

• Brevity

• Using Jargon

• Have grammatical errors

• Redundancy

Select simple alternative for "ascertain"?

• send show

• find out

Select the correct answer for presentation of data in graph.

• Don't have descriptive title

• Using false/fake data

• Don't produce graph from very small amounts of data

• Label axes and tick dont mark properly

What is the most suitable graph when looking for a trend over time

• Pie chart

• Line graph

An abstract is a __________statement.

• brief summarizing

• whole report

Select one correct item should have in title page

• Contents

• Bibliography

• Authors name