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Technical writing is a specialized field that requires personal discipline, skill in writing clearly and concisely, understanding of technical products and processes, organization skill, and knowledge of numerous software tools. Good technical writing is that which fulfills requirements, is delivered on time and is without errors or omissions.

Marketing material :-

This material includes:-

  • Promotional Brochures

  • Advertisements, flyers, catalogs, and other pre-sale literature

  • Informational Brochures 

Promotional material and catalogs can be distributed via CD-ROM. Other way is to use web sites as marketing brochures. Traditionally marketing writing has been done by marketing specialists and advertising copywriters, but online documents and Web material are now being written by professional technical documentation specialists. 
 

User guides and manuals :

Typical guides and manuals include : 

  • Quick reference guides 

  • Software user or reference guides 

  • Hardware reference and user guides 

  • Combination guides 

Many companies are putting their guides and manuals online. Many commercial software companies have abandoned hard-copy manuals in favor of online help files packaged with the software. 
 

Administrative material : 

Such material includes : 

  • Organization manuals 

  • Training materials 

  •  Annual reports 

The movement is to put much of this material online, on the Web, or on an internal intranet. 
 

Miscellaneous material for publication :

These include: 

  • Magazine or trade journal articles 

  • Newsletters 

  • Technical reports 

  • Speeches 

It may be intended for an internal or external audience, a special interest audience or the general public.