It is suggested that engineers and other technical students be taught three classes of skills in technical writing. First, ''Big Picture Things'', which includes: the importance of clear writing, the wide scope of writing, the wide scope of writing tasks that will be faced in industry, and the principles of organization of technical materials such as; how to analyze, classify, partition, and interpret. Second, ''Writing Procedures'', which encompasses: how to get words on paper efficiently and team-write. Third, ''Writing Details'', in which two considerations are important: how to achieve precision in the use of language and the aspects of style. Three problems in style are cited: the problem of sentence transition, overuse of attributive adjectives, and verbosity in paragraph structure. The most important thing in technical writing is considered to be functionality, economy and clarity.

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