There are several factors that set technical writing apart from other types of writing.
Source: S. Jayaprakash, How is technical writing different?
Anand Seetharam is an associate professor of computer science at SUNY Binghamton. In the video (20 minutes), he provides an overview of the different sections in a research paper and how to get started.
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