How to become a Technical Writer

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• Stage 1 – Planning: spend 40% of your time planning your document (task analysis, thinking, discussing, free-writing, researching, brainstorming, concept mapping, focusing ideas, outlining, etc.)
• Stage 2 – Drafting: spend 20% of your time writing a rough draft (quickly getting all your ideas down in print, in more or less complete sentences and paragraphs, in more or less the right order, without agonizing over style or grammar choices). 
• Stage 3 – Revising: spend 40% of your time revising, editing, and proofreading (polishing your draft, making sure the content is complete and well supported, ideas flow logically, formatting meets expectations, expression is grammatically correct and has the appropriate tone and vocabulary).

  

   Writing Process Diagram

Prewritting: This stage is for generating ideas, understanding the ideas of others, and collecting information (note taking, free-writing, brainstorming, looping)

planning: Here, you are organizing and focusing ideas. This may involve mind mapping, clustering, listing, and creating outlines.

Drafting:In the drafting stage you are writing initial drafts of a text focusing mainly on the development, organization, and elaboration of ideas.

Revision:Here you are further developing and clarifying ideas and the structure of the text. This may require you to return to the drafting and reflecting stages. If the work requires additional research or idea generation, return to the planning stage.

Project management

Please must keep mind about:

• Understand the need
• Establish a goal
• Define objective
• Identify constrains