Akram Najjar 
Technical Writing for Business and Engineering Professionals 

Pragmatic technical writing for practicing writers who need to apply effective methods. This e Book focuses on writing as a process. Writing can consist of a task covering a few days or a team based effort of a few months. Since some writing tasks are large, an appendix is included that covers some aspects of project management that apply to a writing project (other aspects of PM are outside the scope of this e Book).The e Book commences with considerations related to writing: what is "technical", what are the risks and ethical considerations in writing. It then discusses the 9 activities in a writing process:Activity 1: Identify and Understand Your Readers Activity 2: Segment Multiple Readers Activity 3: Identify Information Providers and Collect Information Activity 4: Determine the Document’s Sequencing or Flow Modes Activity 5: Develop the Structure of the Document Activity 6: Develop the Content of the Document Activity 7: Develop and Integrate Visual Aids Activity 8: Review, Evaluate and Update the Document Activity 9: Finalize or Create a Camera-ready Document Having provided the technical writer with a framework, the e Book proceeds by discussing various skills and techniques needed when writing: How to structure documents, How to develop effective and efficient documents, How to improve your writing skills, How to improve your argumentation and persuasion skills, The uses and misuses of language How to make technology work for you The e Book is supported by a set of folders that can be downloaded. These consist of workouts, templates, various examples and even original images that are too large to be seen properly in an e Book (which has to be viewed on wide monitors as well 7 inch tablets).