Online Technical Writing: Writing Process

The writing process takes you from the very beginning of a writing project—finding topics and analyzing audience and purpose—all the way to the end—writing and revising the rough draft. The following sections focus on the key phases of that process:

• Strategies for team-writing
• Audience analysis
• Topic ideas
• Brainstorming
• Invention
• Narrowing
• Outlining
• Libraries, documentation, cross-referencing
• Note-taking
• Rough-drafting
• Strategies for peer-reviewing
• Power-revision techniques

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