Getting the Content and Organization Right

Developing good writing habits through freewriting and directed writing are crit- 

If these elements are mastered, business writing can be more easily written and read. 

Once the technical writer learns to just write, line after line can be generated with speed, but another problem focuses on the content What should he or she write about In detail, this will depend upon the writer s subject, but every piece of technical wilting has three critical needs, needs that must be fulfilled at first and then over and over again in every piece of writing (Mathes Stevenson, 1991). 

Specifically every document, section, or major element of a technical writing must explain its  

Following the background and purpose, it is time to give a road map to the remainder. At the beginning of a document, this road map foreshadows the subject s major topics in the remainder of the document. In a section or subsection an intermediate road map lays out the topics for that section or segment of writing. 

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