2 Getting the technical writing the screenplay, and 2 others that it is not

At first glance, it can not have two pens so different niches, such as technical writing and screenwriting.

His two differences are very clear:

) Writer to write a character other than ourselves in the shoes of a fictional company and through an emotional roller racing mountain experience ourselves. It aims to move us.

Technical writing is the exact opposite. Actually tried all the emotional reactions to AVOID all users. A technicianDocument that an emotional response is likely caused by a document not-so-good technician.

Difference 2) writer writes characters built around. No sign does not mean history and no script.

technical writing, on the other hand, is not built on a narrative that focuses on a character. There is an abstract "character" in each document - "You" or "user", also known as "operator" or "Administrator", according tothe, task and document context.

But these two different niches of writing also share two important characteristics:

1) narrative. Each document has a logical, sequential narrative explaining the subject / topic level A / B level, and not vice versa.

In the world of cinema, which of course we have "non-linear narratives, the kind made famous by Quentin Tarantino's" Pulp Fiction ". But still the writer is to write the scriptso that eventually, all the scenes are still non-linear linear sense when the audience back to them in their imagination. The story from there in "Pulp Fiction", but it is only hidden and broken into pieces.

In technical writing of the story must be there too, as clearly stated in the table of contents clearly enough for readers to understand and easy to follow.

2) structural hierarchy. AWriter, as a technical manual, a document is very structured.

Conceptually, a screenplay from the book of Acts (usually 3), divided into sequences that can be made of individual scenes.

And what's more, each scene is constructed with well-defined structural elements. First, the scene passes through the title, scene description, followed Character Name, Parenthetical Note, and dialogue. Each set of dialogue for all characters speak in a scene repeatedinterspersed with additional descriptions, if necessary. The scene ends with a transition, if any (such as fade out, etc.).

In addition, a technical paper (I'm assuming a printed here) starts and ends with a front cover with a lid. In the middle we have the Front Matter, TOC, list of figures and tables (if any), each of the chapters, each divided into sections, paragraphs and single sentences are followed. Most of the technical documents shall be closedwith an index in the back.

and a time-honored integrated structure by deep-seated in the formation of each technique and writer. So I think the writers technical writers would do with a touch and great technique to easily create XML-based structured documents and traditional.