1. Foundations of Technical Communication Module 2

2. Objectives
Identify the 5Cs of Good Technical Communication

3. Identify Elements of Good Technical Communication

4. 5C’s of Technical Communication
Concrete
Clear
Concise
Coherent
Contextualized

5. Concrete
Content Concreteness refers to the proper coverage of your topics in appropriate detail.
Problem statement
Outline
Grammatical Concreteness concerns the careful use of language to express meaning.
Paragraph and sentence structure and
word choice to describe and analyze your topics effectively.

6. Clear Simple, direct language Contextual clarity Use of:
directly worded sentences
simple sentences
Appropriate word choices
and
avoiding overloaded sentences
Contextual clarity
What prompts you to write? What is your purpose? Whose work precedes or has influenced yours? What are the organizational and intellectual requirements of your paper?

7. Clear Use of: Abstracts
Introductions that state the purpose and scope of the document
Tables of content
Problem statements
Strategic repetition to promote structural clarity
Graphs and tables
Descriptive titles
Headings

8. Concise Focus on what is relevant Draft outlines
Identify project scope
Look for sections, including appendixes, that are not essential to your work
Substitute graphics to describe objects and processes, summarize data, and demonstrate relationships
Carefully revise writing
Reduce or eliminate wordiness

9. Coherent Coherence provides the reader with an easily followed path.
The paragraph is one of the most powerful instruments of coherence. By organizing material into a topic sentence and supporting sentences, paragraphs pull together material and emphasize various forms of conceptual development.

10. Coherent Paragraph development strategies exemplification analysis
comparison and contrast
definition
enumeration
description

11. Contextualized Clear objective Delimited scope
Written with the audience in mind