Teaching technical writing in the process of higher professional education

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to substantiate the need to teach technical writing skills to students of technical specialties and to highlight the main components of the technical writing course as a necessary component of professional training of students of technical specialties of higher education institutions. The approaches to teaching technical writing and its role in training students of technical higher education institutions are analyzed. The characteristic features of technical writing are considered. The methods of teaching used in the academic course of technical writing to form communication skills in the field of future professional activity of students are described. The mechanism of forming technical writing skills is revealed. Particular attention is paid to the use of the necessary vocabulary when writing written works in the process of technical writing and to taking into account the specific features of such works, in particular, the mechanics of writing, which involves a combination of a set of activities, such as writing individual paragraphs of a written work, combining them into a single whole according to a particular genre. It is noted that the structural elements of the essay, such as an introduction, description of the place of events, and description of a technological process and its results, should be combined with graphic elements if necessary. The advantages of acquiring technical writing skills are analyzed. From an academic point of view, the writing process consolidates the use of grammatical structures and allows them to learn the necessary vocabulary. The main types of essays used in technical writing are presented. It is emphasized that students need to apply the skills they have acquired from mastering academic writing. As a result, the urgency of technical writing skills for working out communicative competence in professional communication in a foreign language is emphasized.