Technical Writing in Major by Justo Almodovar

Technical Writing can be done in many different types of work when it comes to anyone’s specific major. Technical Writing can be collaborative projects, in formal reports, and in proposals.

Any team project that you may do in a class can be considered as technical writing collaborative works. Collaborative works are usually used in three occasions, 1) If the project requires expertise or specialization in more than one subject area. 2) The project will benefit from merging different perspectives into a unified perspective. 3) The size of the project, time constraints, or the importance of the project to your organization requires a team effort.

Another way that technical writing is used in different majors is in formal reports. Formal reports are written accounts of major projects. Since formal reports serve a different variety of purposes to serve they can be known by many different names such as feasibility study, annual report, investigative report, research report, and an analytical report. Formal reports are organized to address the needs of more than one audience, which have a variety of positions in the organization.

Last but certainly not least, technical writing can be found in proposals. People use technical writing to write proposals when a primary reader may be an expert in the subject that you are speaking about but their supervisor is not, you would provide an executive summary for the supervisor.

To sum everything up, every major uses technical writing. Every major has their students either working on a group project or doing formal reports and that is all that technical writing is. Technical writing is something that every college student does and may not even know that they are doing technical writing themselves.

Source:

Writing That works(Oliu, Brusaw, Alred) p129-30, 372,376, 435