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...... The audience for technical writing is usually very limited. There are often situations when a code of conduct, for example, addressing the entire organization, is created, but usually the technical writing addresses a very small group of individuals who need to use those instructions because they are working with a machine or an instrument or using an application. In the case of expository writing, the audience can and usually is the entire company. The introduction to an annual report, for example, a good case of expository writing, is in fact addressing an audience that goes outside the organization and includes investors or consumers
The difference in tone is perhaps the most important between the two categories of writing. On one hand, technical writing emphasizes the instructions that it needs to send to its audience, which is why the tone of these instructions is usually brisk and short. The expository writing, because it is often a description, can often sometimes take even a literary tone in addressing the audience. It sometimes aims at linking causes and effects: like in the case with the annual report, the plan is not only to give out the facts, but also to explain the

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