What is Technical Writing?

"Technical writing conveys specific information about a technical subject to a specific audience for a specific purpose. The words and graphics of technical writing are meant to be practical: that is, to communicate a body of factual information that will help an audience understand a subject or carry out a task."

Michael H. Markel Director of Technical Communication Boise State University

Examples of Technical writing are as follows:
Operational guides
Technical specifications
Training materials
Contracts, proposals, and grants Feasibility reports
Standard Operating Procedures 
Here is a link to A short course on writing technical reports

writing course By Nancy Halligan  it is good material and worth your time to examine.

http://www.technical-writing-course.com/type-of-technical-report.html
Writing Technical Specifications in the Present

There is a very useful  article on writing technical specifications buy Matthew Kendall. If you would like to download a copy please go to the download page Where you will find Writing Technical Specifications in the Present in the pdf format 

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