Technical Communication Tutorial 2

Main note

Looking back to 2nd grade English

figures of speech

Forming a basic sentence that uses all the F.O.S.

The very quick brown fox jumped over the girls fence and killed her Article adverb adjective adjective noun verb preposition article noun conjunction verb pronoun

Sentence Construction

• Keep it short
• break into separate sentences
• Count your words like you count money marks
• Avoid cluttering phrases
• Avoid Pleonasm
  • Using more than one words
• Avoid Redundant phrases

Pleonasm

Using more words than needed is called pleonasm

Construction Rules

• Avoid Circuitous Expressions - Students other than present today may not understand v/s students absent tday may not understand
• avoid amiguity
• avoid repetition

Would you like to have some tea or coffee? We will go on saturday and come back on sunday?

7C’s of Communication

Completeness

Correctness

Conciseness

Courtesy

Clarity

Consideration

Coherent / Concreteness

Process of writing

• Pick a topic
• Build an argument with perspectives
• Mind Map
• Outline
• Writing
• Editing & Drafts
• Proofreading

Paragraph writing

References

Information

• date:: 2024.07.25
• time:: 12:19