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 Frederisk Douglass - American History
8. ASEAN - Politics/Economics
| SUBJECT CATEGORIES IN TECHNICAL WRITING: |
1. TECHNICAL WRITING: FORMS AND ELEMENTS
| Correspondence |
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| Indexing |
| Minutes of Meetings |
| Press Releases |
| Reports |
| Technical Manuals |
| Trade Journal Articles |
2. FINDING A JOB
| Acceptance Letters |
| Application Letters |
Sample 1 (letter) |
| Resignation Letters |
| Résumés |
| Job Search |
3. PLANNING AND RESEARCH
| Preparation |
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| Research |
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4. ORGANIZATION, WRITING AND REVISION
| Collaborative Writing |
| Ethics in Writing |
Biased Language |
| Forms of Discourse |
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| Methods of Development |
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