Those people say that writing in the professional and scientific world is technical because those people are speaking to an audience that knows what the subject matter is already. There is no need to slowly explain processes so that other people can understand and follow along. When a scientist writes in a technical scientific journal, the scientist doesn’t need to worry about someone not knowing how a positronic flux capacitor being calibrated with a hypersonic spanner reacts when exposed to theta radiation inside a warp field. Doing so would make the paper longer than it needs to be when its general purpose is to get right to the point and share the discovery.

I expect that I will need to communicate with a learned audience when writing technical writing. They would have to be learned in whatever particular field that the particular paper would be written in. There would be no reason for anyone to expect to have a lay audience reading anything written in a technical journal. I also expect that anything technical that I would write would be expected to be filled with “techno-babble”. Its as almost if that the paper would have to be exclusionary to the point of not letting the general public know something that may have an extreme interest in. If someone would want to know that the reason the space shuttle broke apart was that some foam insulation on takeoff cracked the heat shield so when on re-entry the superheated atmosphere broke part of the wing which led to the breakup of the shuttle, they want it in plain English like that sentence. They don’t want some highly technical explanation because the big long multisyllabic words will scare off the common people. It seems that these journals intentionally speak that way so that something that may be so highly controversial that the public would absolutely revolt if they found out will pass right under the public watchdogs. This seems wrong that the scientific and professional community would knowingly dupe the public without letting them know what would be going on.