2. 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 .
4. 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 isto create easily accessible information for a specific
audience
5. Basic level diagram of
Technical
Communication
● It isa 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.
7. DIFFERENCES
GENERAL 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 .
TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION
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.
