- Online Technical Writing: Information Structures
This Web site, part of David A. McMurrey's Online Technical Writing online text, discusses various ways technical writing skills are applied in the real world. McMurrey describes these "information structures," including technical descriptions, definitions, and process descriptions, and offers examples of each.
- HowStuffWorks
This Web site features descriptions of all sorts of processes from how airplanes and computers work to how your brain works. Most of the descriptions are good examples of how to effectively describe and present technical information to nontechnical audiences.
- Definitional Techniques
This online handout from Professor Merrill Whitburn at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute describes various techniques for defining terms in academic and professional writing.
- Writing a Mechanism Description
Created by Professor Dennis G. Jerz at the University of Wisconsin, this Web page offers some useful guidelines, along with brief examples, for writing technical descriptions.
- Writing a Process Description
Also from Professor Dennis G. Jerz, this Web page describes how to write a process description.
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