Government Engineering College

Bhavnagar

Communication Skills

General And Technical Communication

Direct And Presented By

Sandip Hapani...

What is the Communication?

Process of Communication.

Communication can be define as the exchange of information, ideas, and knowledge between the sender and the receiver through an accepted code of symbols.

GENERAL COMMUNICATION

• The communication in which participants not only exchange information, news, ideas and feelings but also create and share their views about any general topic they are communicating.

• It basically involves any interaction between arbitrary people discussing routine topic, regardless of the mode of communication .

Basic level General Communication

Friends hanging out. Gossips within mates.

TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION

• Technical communication is a means to convey scientific, engineering, or other technical information.

• Technical Communication defines the field as any form of communication that focuses on technical or specialized topics, communicates specifically by using technology or provides instructions on how to do something.

• The definition of technical communication, the overarching goal of the practice is to create easily accessible information for a specific audience

Basic level diagram of Technical

Communication● It is a professional task

performed by specialized employees or consultants.

● Technical communicators have to identify the audience and their information needs.

● A non-technical audience might misunderstand or not even read a document that is heavy with jargon—while a technical audience might crave detail critical to their work.

Examples of Technical communication

Scientific discussions Company Meetings

DIFFERENCESGENERAL COMMUNICATION TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION

1. Contains a general message.  2. Informal in style and

approach . 3. Indefinite pattern. 4. Mostly oral mode of propagation . 5. Not always for a specific

audience . 6. Less use of technical terms or graphics .

1. Contains a technical message .

2. Mostly formal in style and approach . 3. Follows a set pattern . 4. Both oral and written way . 5. Always for a specific audience . 6. Frequently involves jargons, graphics etc. 

Special Thanks To…

Dr.Himanshu Shrivastav Dr.Chetan Trivedi“Slide share”“Google Image”Technical Communication by Meenakshi Raman

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