Reflection Paper Cover on Chapter 1 2 and 3 In year three, I have known some foundation related to technical writing through business communication subject.
As technical writing grows into a more common discipline, complicated questions concerning ethical standards seem to present themselves more frequently. Much of what is written by a technical writer will need to appeal to individuals of varying situational backgrounds, and in this day of intense political correctness and moral responsibility, it is important to remember the ethical and other cultural issues associated with writing for diverse groups of people.Studying technical writing is very difficult but useful in business communication. Through my experience of studying three chapter of technical writing, I think in this skill, it has some pros and cons. In chapter one, I have gotten a lot of knowledge about an introduction to technical writing.
Through this chapter I can see my understanding and my conceptualization. First of all, technical writing costs time and money. For example, it has been found that on an average, students or employees spend 20% of their time to write memos, letters, or reports to find a good job, request for money or do some reports to their boss.Sometime technical writing can save a lot of time if you write a clear directive use technical words, so you don’t need to write it again and again.
Moreover, technical writing involves attractive layout for easy reading and comprehension. For instant, the three 3 C’s of good technical writing are clear, concise and complete. It means that technical writing have to be clear understandable, short or with no unnecessary words, and complete meaning.About the principle of technical communication focus on chapter two have 6 important principles: use good grammar, write concisely, use the active voice, use positive statements, avoid long sentences and use standard punctuation. However, using good grammar and standard punctuation are still my problem because we have to understand clearly of English grammar.
But, studying English grammar is very difficult and complex. It needs to remember all the key words. On the other hand, others principles are acceptable to understand.For example, to write concisely is to write shortly or reduce all unnecessary words. Using the active voice is to avoid passive voice because ,in active voice, subjects is doing action and express directly for reader, and when we mostly use passive voice in technical writing, the reader can be misunderstanding the meaning of your letter.
Moreover, using the positive statement is very important in technical writing because most readers don’t like the negative statement, but they can accept the positive statement with the negative meaning.We need to avoid long sentences. If we use too long sentences in your letter, the reader can be misreading your meaning. Chapter three discuses about words and phrases commonly used in technical writing.
In this chapter, I have noticed that there are a lot of technical words to use in technical writing. Among all of them, there have five important ways to know: jargon, big words, wordy phrase, redundancy and cliche. Jargon is the technical terminology of any specialized field, so we can use or not depend on a person whom we communicate with.In additional, wordy phrase, redundancy and cliche, we should avoid, and it causes our letter more difficult to understand.
If the word is too complex, too long, unfamiliar, old fashioned, vague, or abstract, search for another word that will search you better. There is a problem in this chapter. There are many words that we have to remember or memorize. In conclusion, I think the most difficult things in technical writing are using grammar and standard punctuation in chapter 2.About those points that I have not understood, I am going to read, review and research it more for improving my knowledge of grammar.
And words or phrases in technical writing, I will try to memorize it by reading, writing and using that words. In the future, to develop my skill of technical writing, I will read other technical books, learn the vocabulary of writing and learn new tools and ways to use my existing tools. Moreover, I will edit someone else’s work to gain some experiences.
