Communicative English for Engineers and Professionals

10

Professional and Technical Communication

In this unit

• Introduction
• Letter Writing
• Job Applications
• Letter to the Editor
• Business Letters
• Reports
• News Reports
• E-mail Writing

“Communication becomes effective when its what, when and how have been pondered over.”

–Sai Vaidyanathan

10.1 Introduction

A professional and technical communication, broadly speaking, is a formal system of writing messages to disseminate and receive useful information, within and outside an organization, following the technicalities and tools normally adopted to write such communications. A technical communication is a modern business technique or skill used as an aid to write down messages and to make them understandable. The technical aspects of business correspondence ...