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    The Technical Writing

    Process
    Writing is thinking and good
    thinking for all kinds of writers
    requires a systematic way of
    expressing ideas and feelings.
    • Writing demands an active kind of
    thinking where we have to analyze,
    synthesize, and criticize various
    kinds of knowledge. (Gustavi, 2008)
    Thinking in Thinking in

    passive process active process


    3 Writing Stages:
    P3 (Gerson, 2010)
    •Pre-writing
    •Planning
    •Writing
    •Packaging
    •Post-writing
    •Perfecting
    (Ingre, 2003)
    Stage 1:
    PRE-WRITING
    STAGE
    PRE-WRITING STAGE
    •Planning is the term used by others to
    identify this initial step in technical
    writing.
    PRE-WRITING STAGE

    Things to consider in planning:


    Purpose
    • enables you to determine the right
    ideas or knowledge to include in your
    paper
    Subject Matter or Topic
    • called as Ideation or Inventive Stage
    •which ideas are relevant to your topic
    Audience or Reader
    • You Attitude or the Reader-Oriented style of
    writing
    • audience analysis
    • The effectiveness or success of your report
    depends on how it appeals to your reader.
    (Gallo, 2010)
    Types of Audience or Readers:
    a) Primary audience– makers of decision
    b) Secondary audience– implementers of decisions and
    givers of recommendations
    c) Immediate audience– transmitters of decisions through
    the different users
    d) Nominal audience– names mentioned in the report but
    have no significant participation in the production of the
    report
    Types of Audience or Readers:
    a) Experts– these are the people who know the
    theory & the product inside and out.
    b) Executives– these are the people who make
    business, economic, administrative, legal,
    governmental, political decisions on the stuff that
    the experts & technicians work with.
    Types of Audience or Readers:
    c) Technicians– these are the people who build,
    operate, maintain, & repair the stuff that the experts
    design and theorize about.
    d) Nonspecialists– have the least technical
    knowledge of all; they want to use the new product
    to accomplish their task.
    Content
    •All the things you want your readers to
    know about your chosen subject matter
    Pre-writing
    Strategies
    1. Brainstorming session
    2 Methods of Brainstorming:

    1. Individual Brainstorming Session


    2. Group Brainstorming Session
    2. Free writing or Looping

    -- “lazy writing”
    3. Interview
    2 types of questions:

    1.Structured or closed questions


    2. Unstructured or open-ended questions
    4. Questionnaire Survey
    5. Reading
    6. Listing
    Cell Phones

    Nokia brand Multi-colored cases


    Pre-paid card Charging
    Phone card Battery
    Sim card Texting
    Air-sprayed panel Hypertext
    Melodious sound Send
    Different sizes
    7. Speculating

    -- is an act of entertaining some


    doubts about something.
    Computers
    • What is computer?
    • How did this device get its name computer?
    • Who invented this electronic device?
    • Where can you buy cheap but durable computers?
    • Whose computer looks like a cell phone?
    • When can the Philippines introduce a new brand of
    computer?
    8. Semantic Mapping or
    Drawing
    a.Traditional or Conventional Outline
    b. Modern or Numerical Outline

    9. Outlining
    Computer
    II. Parts of Computer
    I. Nature of computer A. Monitor
    A. Definition B. CPU
    B. History Traditional or C. Disc drive
    C. Characteristics D. Main board
    Conventional
    1. Instantly operated III. Types of Computer
    Outline
    2. Mechanically movable
    3. Electronically dependent
    A. Desk top
    B. Lap top
    a. Atoms C. Microcompute
    b. Electrons
    c. Electricity
    d. Chips
    1.Nature of computer
    1.1 Definition 1.4 Parts of computer
    1.2 History 1.4.1 Monitor
    1.3 Characteristics 1.4.2 CPU

    Modern or Numerical
    1.3.1 Instantly operated 1.4.3 Disc drive
    1.3.2 Mechanically movable 1.4.4 Main board
    1.3.3. Electronically dependent 1.4.5 Light emitting diode
    Outline
    1.3.3.1 Atoms
    1.3.3.2 Electrons
    1.4.6 Key board
    1.5 Types of computer
    1.3.3.3 Electricity 1.5.1 Desk top
    1.3.3.4 Chips 1.5.2 Lap top
    1.5.3 Microcomputer
    10. Semantic Webbing or
    Clustering
    rain
    wood
    roof
    rust steel post
    stone
    HOUSE
    crystal glass stairs
    beam steel
    11. Electronic devices
    Business Search Engines
    ZdNet.com, Earth Link.net, Business Week Online
    (http://www.businessweel.com)

    International Search Engines


    Search engine Colossus
    Abyz News Link (International newspapers and magazines)
    World Press Review (International Respective on USA)

    Special Search Engines


    FindLaw.com– focuses on legal sources
    Achoo.com– lets you access health & medical status
    Articles in magazines & journals
    Infotrac, silver platter
    Ebscottest, 1-800

    Metasearch Engines
    Mamma.com – http://mamma.com
    Dogpile – http://www.infind.com
    Inference find – http://www.infind.com

    Education Search Engines


    Search Educ– http://www.searcheduc.com
    Voice of Shuttle– http://humiritas.ucsb.edu/
    Stage 2: DRAFTING OR
    WRITING
    •Some consider this as the stage
    of packaging or formatting
    data.
    •Data packaging
    -- spending time & effort in
    forming clear and correct sentences
    to express ideas
    •Should avoid the “orphan line”
    • Formatting
    -- how your report should
    appear on the paper
    -- avoid wall-to-wall paragraphs
    •Techniques in breaking long paragraphs:
    a. Use the technique of chunking to set
    the organizational patterns of your
    work.
    b. Use a certain technique in arranging
    the components of your report.
    c. Make your report accessible to the reader.
    d. Present data in various forms such as
    giving them a vertical, horizontal, or
    columnar positioning of structures in the
    report.
    e. Express your thoughts in a conversational
    way.
    Stage 3: POST
    WRITING
    STAGE
    Sub-processes of this stage:

    a.Revising
    b. Editing
    c.Proofreading
    a. Revising
    -- making changes in the
    context and organization of the
    text
    b. Editing
    -- means to check the
    grammaticalness of the text
    c. Proofreading
    -- focus your attention on
    typographical errors, report format,
    documentation style as well as
    missing parts or words in the written
    work.
    How much time should you spend in each writing
    stage?

    • Pre-writing stage – 35%


    • Writing or Drafting stage – 15%
    • Post-writing stage – 50%

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