# 4. Organizational Design

Organizational design focuses on guidelines and techniques for organizing and drafting technical documents. It covers organizational patterns and rhetorical moves for introductions and conclusions to technical reports, as well as patterns for specific technical genres including memos, technical descriptions and specifications, instructional content, proposals, activity or status reports, and analytical reports.

## Reading

| Technical Communication Today | Technical Communication        |
| ----------------------------- | ------------------------------ |
| 15. Organizing and Drafting   | 7. Organizing Your Information |

## Learning Objectives

* Discuss how patterns of arrangement can help you organize information logically.
* Explain how to use genres to outline and organize documents.

### Recall key terms and facts about the organization and drafting of information products

Introduction of a document 

1. The six opening moves  
2. How to organize the opening moves  

The major patterns of arrangement for the body of a document and how they are used 

The five closing moves in a conclusion

Typical patterns for organizing each of the six technical genres: 

1. Letter, Memos and E-mail 
2. Technical Descriptions and Specifications 
3. Instructions and Documentation 
4. Proposals 
5. Activity Reports 
6. Analytical Reports 


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