Four Examples of Technical Writing Outlines
Learn how to adapt your outline to fit the document you are writing.
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This lesson provides you with some real examples of outlines for specific documents. We encourage you to use these example outlines to guide you as you create the outline for your next piece of technical writing.
Bug report
It is important that you are clear on how to write a bug report because bugs happen! If you find a bug but cannot log it clearly for the person fixing it or if the bug is not reproducible, the bug will not be fixed, and your product experience will not improve. The developer must be able to visualize the situation, or else they will be unable to fix the bug.
Bug reports should be as concise and get straight to the point with as few words as possible.
The best way to outline for this kind of report is to put yourself in your fellow developer's shoes and ask yourself questions from their point of view.
Take a look at the following scenario:
On Tuesday, after a recent merge, the website's search is not bringing up the correct information when prompted. You decide to ...