1. Advanced Technical writing
Lecture
Five Steps to Successful Writing
February 2017
Mohammed Alhanjouri

2. The Writing Process
The writing process takes you from the very beginning of a writing project
It includes finding topics, analysing audience, writing, and revising the rough draft. 

3. Five Steps to Successful writing
Preparation
Research
Organization
Writing the draft
Revision

4. Preparation: Establishing your objective. Identifying your reader.
Research
Organization
Writing the draft
Revision
Establishing your objective.
Identifying your reader.
Determining the scope of your coverage.

5. Establishing your objectives
Preparation
Establishing your objectives
Identifying your reader.
Determining the scope of your coverage
Research
Organization
Writing the draft
Revision
Simply determine what do you want your readers to know?
Or be able to do when they have finished reading your report.

6. Identifying your reader
What are your readers need in relation to your subject?
What does your reader already know about your subject?
Preparation
Establishing your objectives
Identifying your reader.
Determining the scope of your coverage
Research
Organization
Writing the draft
Revision

7. Audience Analysis
The audience of a technical report—or any piece of writing for that matter—is the ,intended or potential, reader or readers.
 Lack of audience analysis and adaptation is one of the root causes of most of the problems you find in professional, technical documents.
One of the first things to do when you analyze an audience is to identify its type.

8. Types of Audiences
The common division of audiences into categories is as follows:
Experts: These are the people who know the theory and the product inside and out. 
Technicians: These are the people who build, operate, maintain, and repair the stuff that the experts design and theorize about.
Executives: These are the people who make business, economic, administrative, legal, governmental, political decisions on the stuff that the experts and technicians work with. Executives are likely to have as little technical knowledge about the subject as nonspecialists.
Nonspecialists:  The nonspecialist reader is least likely to understand what these people are saying.

9. Determining the Scope of Your coverage
Preparation
Establishing your objectives
Identifying your reader.
Determining the scope of your coverage
Research
Organization
Writing the draft
Revision
The first two steps will help you to decide what to include and not to include in your writing.

10. Research
Preparation
Establishing your objectives
Identifying your reader.
Determining the scope of your coverage
Research
Organization
Writing the draft
Revision
To understand your subject do search in the library, internet, and interview

11. Organization
Preparation
Establishing your objectives
Identifying your reader.
Determining the scope of your coverage
Research
Organization
Writing the draft
Revision
To make topic understandable by the reader, follow the following steps:
Outline
Illustration
Layout and design

12. Writing a Draft Expand your notes from outline to paragraph
Preparation
Establishing your objectives
Identifying your reader.
Determining the scope of your coverage
Research
Organization
Writing the draft
Revision
Expand your notes from outline to paragraph
Concentrate on converting outline into sentences and paragraphs

13. Revision Structure Grammar Preparation 2. Research 3. Organization
Establishing your objectives
Identifying your reader.
Determining the scope of your coverage
Research
Organization
Writing the draft
Revision
Structure
Grammar