"Collaborative" Post #1- David Floyd

This was supposed to be a collaborative post, but being the only one left to post, I flew solo on this one...
Tech writing defined:

Technical writing is an attempt to capture technology or a process and being able to put it into a format that others can view and understand at a later time. Visual tools such as pictures and graphs are usually more efficient than a chart is, as a chart has to be read but a graph can be quickly understood by simply observing it. One must know the audience to whom one is writing, and one must be able to write in such a way that the particular audience will be able to understand the writers’ subject matter. The writer must clearly and quickly make his / her point so that valuable time is not wasted struggling through unnecessarily burdensome language. One should also be very specific and avoid speaking too vaguely, as using generalized language is not precise and, therefore, least likely to provide the audience with an opportunity to fully understand the authors’ topic.