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2nd Week 2 Difference Between Technical Writing and Academic Writing

Technical writing focuses on providing clear and factual information about a product or service, aiming to achieve specific goals without personal viewpoints. In contrast, academic writing seeks to prove theories or viewpoints, often including the writer's perspective and based on academic research. The audience and purpose differ, with technical writing targeting professionals in a specific field and academic writing aimed at teachers or students.

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2nd Week 2 Difference Between Technical Writing and Academic Writing

Technical writing focuses on providing clear and factual information about a product or service, aiming to achieve specific goals without personal viewpoints. In contrast, academic writing seeks to prove theories or viewpoints, often including the writer's perspective and based on academic research. The audience and purpose differ, with technical writing targeting professionals in a specific field and academic writing aimed at teachers or students.

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Difference between Technical Writing and

Academic Writing
1. Technical Writing: Technical writing refers to a piece of writing which focuses on
providing detailed and lucid information about the product or service. It contains
factual and straight forward content. It is entirely goal-oriented and it talks about
different ways by which the desired goal can be achieved. Mainly Technical writings
are something new or existing concept based on the same technical domain. Here the
writer avoids to explain a specific subject matter by providing his/her own point of
view. (objective)

Example includes suppose a writer writing an article based on the topic comes under computer
science domain.
2. Academic Writing: Academic writing refers to a piece of writing which focuses on proving
a theory or viewpoint in one way or the other and emphasizes upon one specific subject.
Through academic writing the writer intends to prove a theory or viewpoint in one way or the
other. Mainly academic writings are based on academic findings and academic research. The
writer can explain a specific subject matter by providing his/her own point of view . (subjective
and objective)
Example includes suppose a professor writing on a concept related to Chemistry and that
published on college’s monthly magazine.

Difference between Technical Writing and Academic Writing :


S.No
. TECHNICAL WRITING ACADEMIC WRITING
Its purpose is getting something Its purposes is to demonstrate
05. done. what a person knows.
Academic writing focuses on
Technical writing focuses on proving a theory or viewpoint in
providing detailed and lucid one way or the other and
information about the product or emphasizes upon one specific
01. service. (information) subject. (theory)
Technical writing contains factual Academic writing contains
and straight forward content. contents on specific discipline or
02. (objective) field. (subjective objective both)
Own or personal point views are Own or personal point of view
03. not included. may be included.
04. Technical writers should have Academic writers have learners
expert knowledge. (more
knowledge) knowledge. (less knowledge)
In technical writing the knowledge In academic writing the
of topic is more than the reader knowledge of topic is less than
who is going through it. . (more the teacher who is evaluating the
05. knowledge) topic. (less knowledge)
Audience of Technical writing may
be several people who are Audience of academic writing
specifically belongs to the same may be a teacher or students or
06. technical field. some people related to filed.
In academic writing graphics,
In technical writing graphics, charts and numbers are
charts and numbers are used very sometimes used to explain the
07. frequently to support conclusion. concept well.
Technical writing follows subject Academic writing follows
08. specific vocabulary. technical vocabulary.
Its example include suppose a
Its example include suppose a professor writing on a concept
writer writing an article based on related to Chemistry and that
the topic comes under computer published on college’s monthly
10. science domain on GeeksforGeeks. magazine.

Purpose, content 3, ingredients 2, writer, audience 2, example

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