Technical Communications Toolbox
Interested in teaching yourself or your students how to improve their professional writing skills? The Technical Communications Toolbox is intended to help students write clearly and concisely, regardless of their specialty, for a variety of audiences. Regardless of the audience, being clear, accurate and complete is key, and these tips and tricks will help any engineer meet that standard.
In the Toolbox
Remember, all written documents (paper and digital) are a permanent record. They may become a legal record as well. Always be clear, accurate and complete in your writing.
You are not just writing to be understood, you are writing to be not misunderstood.
Professor Jack Breen, University of Texas at Austin
July 2000