1. Government Engineering College
Bhavnagar

2. Communication Skills
General And Technical Communication

3. Direct And Presented
By
Sandip Hapani...

4. 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.

5. 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 .

6. Basic level General Communication
Friends hanging out. Gossips within mates.

7. 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

8. 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.

9. Examples of Technical
communication
Scientific discussions Company Meetings

10. DIFFERENCES
GENERAL 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.

11. Special Thanks To…
Dr.Himanshu Shrivastav
Dr.Chetan Trivedi
“Slide share”
“Google Image”
Technical Communication by Meenakshi Raman

12. Thank You