Technical Reading and Writing

Paper Summary:

This paper examines how current teaching methods in technical writing must change to meet business and industry demand for quality foreign writers and how the role of technical writing instructors rarely is thought of as second language instructors, but with more people coming to the United States, they cannot escape becoming a second language instructor as well. It looks at the different teaching materials and resources that need to be designed to meet these changing needs and different approaches to teaching.

Outline:
Introduction
Definition of Technical Reading and Writing
Significance and Relation to Foreign Language
Acculturation Model
Business Skills
Consequences of Poor Writing Skills
Teaching Strategies
Model Teaching

From the Paper:

"With technical writing, a thought does not begin or end with each paragraph as it does with other types of writing. This is what confuses international students, because they learn the rule of paragraph construction each paragraph must begin and end a complete thought. This is not true of technical writing, which may take several paragraphs to convey a complete thought. An example of this may be when a particular idea is introduced and the explanations take more than just one paragraph."

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