Technical Writing Subject Guide

From the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL). This section helps you build Information about your readers. It discusses your communication's complex audience and provides key questions you can ask to determine readers' needs, values, and attitudes. This section also provides useful charts to help you with your audience analysis.

From Columbia Engineering

From the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL). This resource explains two dominant ideas in professional writing that will help you produce persuasive, usable resumes, letters, memos, reports, white papers, etc. This section outlines the concepts of rhetorical awareness and user-centered design, provides examples of these ideas, and contains a glossary of terms.

From the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL). The HATS presentation introduces students and instructors to the basic elements of document design. The presentation outlines how to use headings, (information) access, typography (fonts), and space in routine professional documents to promote user-centered communication.

Plain language makes it easier for the public to read, understand, and use government communications.

From the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL). When you are revising your resume or other business messages, there are priorities of concerns in choosing what to look for and work on. This handout provides tips for reviewing the content and quality of your business documents.

These OWL resources will help you conduct research and compose documents for the workplace, such as memoranda and business letters. This section also includes resources for writing report and scientific abstracts.

From the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)

From the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL).