Technical communication. Technical communication is a means to convey scientific, engineering, or other technical information. Individuals in a variety of contexts and with varied professional credentials engage in technical communication. Some individuals are designated as technical communicators or technical writers.
This guide is designed to teach the differences between popular and scholarly articles. Popular Articles (Magazines) 1  Are often written by journalists or professional writers for a general audience.  Use language easily understood by general readers.
Whatâs a âresearch article,â anyway? When scientists and other scholars want to make the results of their work public, they usually begin by publishing them in a scholarly journal with a title like New England Journal of Medicine, or Journal of Cell Biology. Research articles will usually contain: 1  a summary or âabstractâ. 2  a description of the research. 3  the results they got.  the significance of the results.