Technical Writing (CSC 379) is a Sixth Semester course in Tribhuvan University’s BSc CSIT program. It builds practical workplace writing skills — understanding audience and purpose, following a structured writing process, and producing correspondence, web content, reports, resumes, presentations, proposals, and other professional documents.
Start with the official Technical Writing syllabus (CSC 379), then study from the notes below:
Note: Some course listings show this subject as CSC 368; the official TU syllabus sheet uses CSC 379.
What you’ll learn
- Characteristics of technical writing and how it differs from other writing
- Planning for audience, purpose, scope, and medium
- The writing process: planning, drafting, revising, copyediting, and collaboration
- E-mails, memos, letters, document design, graphics, and writing for the web
- Informative, progress, and recommendation reports, news releases, and proposals
- Resumes, employment letters, presentations, and ethics in the workplace
Course snapshot
- Code: CSC 379
- Program: BSc CSIT, Sixth Semester
- Board: Tribhuvan University (IOST)
- Nature: Theory only, 3 credit hours
- Marks: 80 (final) + 20 (internal)