About Course

Technical writing is a type of writing where the author is writing about a particular subject that requires direction, instruction, or explanation. This style of writing has a very different purpose and different characteristics than other writing styles such as creative writing, academic writing or business writing. The main purpose of technical writing is to provide complex information to readers in a way that they can understand and apply, even if they do not have prior knowledge of the topic. Technical writing explains how a particular object works or how to complete a task or project. The audience of a technical report—or any piece of writing for that matter—is the intended or potential reader or readers. For most technical writers, this is the most important consideration in planning, writing, and reviewing a document. This course includes technical writing as well as other types of writing. The fundamentals of technical writing, knowing who you're writing for and why you're writing it, getting rid of the clutter in your writing with the goal of achieving effective and seamless communication, strong paragraphs and sentence structure, the fundamentals of writing (grammar and punctuation), insights into collaborative writing, planning and preparing a technical report/white paper, and an efficient and organized writing method are topics covered in this course.