Open Technical Writing: An Open-Access Text for Instruction in Technical and Professional Writing

Abstract

This is a textbook about technical writing. But, what is technical writing exactly? There are any number of definitions of what exactly should or should not be technical writing, just like there are any number of definitions of what should or should not be just about anything that people care about. Some definitions are different because they are used by folks doing wildly different things. For example, what I consider running might be drastically different than what you consider running. For me, it’s going 2-6 miles at a pace of around 12 minutes per mile. You might run considerably slower or faster, shorter or longer, meaning that your definition of running and my definition of running differ because we are simply doing things differently.