Tech Drunk Staff 
The following articles will lead you throughout the high points of this guide. Read the articles and these articles they point to. If you can recite all of it and apply it to your work, you will qualify as a professional On the topic of Government spec writing, at least in my view you’ll. Intro – Engineering Management Issues Specification Information – Writing Specifications – Utilization of Words and Phrases – Related Issues – Index – Download MS Word version of the Guide – Bibliography – Basic Grammar Review – Intro – Most of technology relies on physical laws that can easily be expressible as simple equations.
All the remainder of each subject is a treatment of how they may be applied to practical usage and information about these fundamentals. So it’s simple to learn and recall the substance can be organized in a way. Specification writing does not function that way, it’s a hard subject in teach because it attracts law, project management, engineering training, so many subjects, civics, grammar, word use, and doctrine. Like we’re accustomed to dealing with in technology, the subject matter does not integrate into a whole. All you have is a lot of facts Irrespective of how you attempt to organize it.
The correct order of presentation is nearly impossible to determine. Becoming acquainted with a body of knowledge throughout on the job experience requires years, and maintaining all it in mind while creating a document is hard to a person. In line with the nature of the material, the guide is a collection of short posts. The intent is to help both newcomers to the field and people who sometimes prepare informal specifications, but do not prepare them frequently enough to maintain the high degrees of knowledge and skill they really need to do the work right. Earlier versions of the guide were embedded in a software bundle I made for engineers to use when they were actually creating specifications.
This HTML version was adapted from that to line bundle so it could reach a bigger audience. Since more memory space is available for the version, and the HTML format imposes fewer constraints, the posts have been expanded from their original content. They still, however, specifically addresses the types of errors I’ve seen repeatedly in drafts of training device specifications written by Government engineers. Note the text displayed in red makes points I do not want you to miss. While drawn, where possible, from recognized authoritative sources, much of the info in these articles doesn’t come from official policy documents. Think about it as you’d a text book for a college course. There’s no shortage of directives affecting specifications.
