Applying Concept Map to develop a new Technical Writing technique for enhancing Reading Comprehension performance

In today dynamic information technology era, technical documents are becoming bigger and are updated frequently more than ever. As a result, people have to spend a huge mount of time and efforts to digest these technical documents. Although the traditional technical writing technique helps to produce cohesive and easy-tobe-understood technical documents, it does still suffer the essence problems of the prose text such as language ambiguity and ineffective key concept manipulation. Nevertheless, interestingly, these problems can be solved effectively by concept map technique. Because of its 2-dimension spatial concept representation, concept map can help to limit the language ambiguity problem, to manipulate the concepts effectively, and to enhance reading comprehension performance. The research described in this paper aimed to propose a new more effective technical writing technique by applying concept map. The research used some basic experiments in psychology and many examples to demonstrate this proposal.