Technical Writing

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Kremesti.com specializes in scientific and engineering technical writing and proofreading.

This section features guidelines and recommended steps for any technical writing project as well as samples of professional documents and charts from various disciplines. We hope you find it useful.

CHECKLIST OF THE WRITING PROCESS:
 

1. PREPARATION

2. RESEARCH

3. ORGANIZATION

4. WRINTING A DRAFT

 
 
SAMPLES OF ACADEMIC TECHNICAL WRITING:

1. "The End of Certainty" based on Ilya Prigogine's Book (Nobel Prize 1977) - Scientific Academic

2. The Selfish Gene - Scientific Academic

3. Problems With The Origins of Life - Scientific Academic

4. Comparative Politics: USA and Singapore - Political Science - Political Science

5. Demand for Children - Economics

6. Revolution and Anomie - Socio-Political Topic

7. Narrative of the Life of An American Slave - by Frederik Douglass - American History

8. ASEAN - Politics/Economics

9. USA vs SINGAPORE Comparative Politics 


 
SUBJECT CATEGORIES IN TECHNICAL WRITING:

1. TECHNICAL WRITING: FORMS AND ELEMENTS

Correspondence

Acknowledgement Letters
Fund-Raiser Invitation
Adjustment Letters
Complaint Letters
Cover Letters
Statement of Purpose (Academia)
Inquiries and Responses
International Correspondence
Memos
Reference (recommendation)Letters (HTML - Word)
Refusal Letters

Indexing
Minutes of Meetings
Press Releases
Reports
Technical Manuals
Trade Journal Articles


2. FINDING A JOB

Acceptance Letters
Application Letters
Sample 1 (letter)
Sample 3 (email)
Resignation Letters
Résumés
Job Search

3. PLANNING AND RESEARCH

Preparation

Purpose
Readers
Scope
Selecting the Medium
Topics

Research

Bibliographies
Brainstorming
Copyright
Documenting Sources
Internet Research
Interviewing SMEs for Information
Library Research
Listening
Note Taking
Paraphrasing
Plagiarism
Questionnaires
Quotations

4. ORGANIZATION, WRITING AND REVISION

Collaborative Writing
Ethics in Writing
Biased Language
Sexism in Language
Forms of Discourse

Description
Exposition
Narration
Persuasion

Methods of Development

Cause and Effect
Chronological

 5. Operation and Maintenance Manuals

O&M Manuals need to cover the following main topics

A. Introduction

B. Contact info of the company developing the O&M Manuals

C. Reference Documents (PID's, Wiring Diagrams, PLC Logic, General Arrangement Drawings, Signal Exchange List)

D. EHS statement

E. System Description

F. Functional Description

G. Maintenance

H. Service Schedule

I. Spare Parts