{"title":"A definition and illustrated taxonomy of technical writing","authors":"T. Montgomery","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.1988.24018","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The authors present a practical definition and taxonomy of technical writing. The taxonomy allows actual referents to differentiate technical, business, and scientific writing. The author also describes a structured exercise than can be used with students or professionals to demonstrate tangibly the attributes that segregate technical writing from the other writing classifications.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":374472,"journal":{"name":"IPCC '88 Conference Record 'On the Edge: A Pacific Rim Conference on Professional Technical Communication'.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1988-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IPCC '88 Conference Record 'On the Edge: A Pacific Rim Conference on Professional Technical Communication'.","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.1988.24018","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The authors present a practical definition and taxonomy of technical writing. The taxonomy allows actual referents to differentiate technical, business, and scientific writing. The author also describes a structured exercise than can be used with students or professionals to demonstrate tangibly the attributes that segregate technical writing from the other writing classifications.<>