Documents:
* Instruction Manuals: Step-by-step guides on how to use a product or system.
* User Guides: More comprehensive guides explaining features, functionality, and troubleshooting.
* Tutorials: Step-by-step instructions often with screenshots or videos.
* Reference Manuals: Detailed explanations of commands, functions, or components.
* API Documentation: Information for developers on how to interact with a software application.
* White Papers: In-depth reports on a specific topic, often for technical audiences.
* Technical Reports: Documents detailing the results of research, experiments, or testing.
* Proposals: Documents outlining a project plan, methodology, and budget.
* Specifications: Detailed descriptions of requirements for a product or system.
* Standards and Policies: Formal documents outlining rules and guidelines.
* Meeting Minutes: Record of key decisions and discussions from technical meetings.
* Troubleshooting Guides: Helps users identify and resolve problems.
* FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions): Answers to common questions about a product or service.
Other Outputs:
* Online Help Systems: Integrated help within software applications.
* Websites: Information architecture, content creation, and user experience design for technical websites.
* Videos: Tutorials, explainer videos, demos.
* Presentations: Slides or talks explaining technical information to various audiences.
* Training Materials: Course materials, workshops, handbooks.
* Blog Posts: Sharing technical insights or news.
* Internal Communications: Emails, memos, reports within an organization.
* Software Documentation (code comments, etc.): embedded within code itself for programmers.
In essence, anything that communicates technical information clearly and effectively to its intended audience can be considered an output of technical writing. The format and style will vary depending on the purpose and audience.