Features and Benefits. About the Author Dr. During her 14 years as coach of the petroleum engineering department's student paper contest team, her students took more than half the awards at each year's regional competition.
She also received a university-level award for design and delivery of her senior-level technical writing course. In addition to teaching, Dr. Weatherford has more than two decades of experience in editing company reports, papers for presentation at technical meetings, and other professional engineering documents. Read an interview with Darla-Jean Weatherford.
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Here, I gathered some fee ebooks on different technical writing tips that are not only about writing. People are mostly using their smartphones to look something up online real quick nowadays. This means that technical writers should be prepared to answer the challenge of making online documentation responsive. Are you sure your screenshots will fit into iPhone screen nicely and will not produce horizontal scrollbar, which ruins readability?
If you know a little about responsive design, this ebook is a great place to start. In this ebook, you will find:. The main goal of a technical writer is to create user-friendly documentation. This handout provides a strategy reverse outlining to check your paper for logical coherence. At the micro level, readers look for specific words such as key terms, pronouns or transitions to help them follow the thread of your paper. We call this lexical coherence. Refer to Flow and Lexical Coherence for this.
Use the questions below to help you decide what the paragraph does in your paper: Does it introduce a new topic? What is the topic? Does the topic support the thesis directly, indirectly, or not at all? Does the paragraph develop a point?
Does it set a mood or summarize a point? Then respond to the following questions: Are any of the paragraphs unnecessary because they repeat the same points? Do any of these paragraphs seem to discuss more than one topic?
If yes, could the paragraph be split up? Do any of these paragraphs seem out of place? Do all of your topics support your thesis? Do any of the paragraphs take the reader in a direction you had not intended? Is anything missing from this essay that you thought you had included? Does this ordering of ideas seem easy for a reader to follow? Why did you choose this order? Does it follow the order you laid out in the introduction? Does the essay seem choppy? If it does, how do the paragraphs move from one idea to the next?
How could you make the move from one paragraph to another smoother? See Flow and Lexical Coherence for more help. Conducting a Literature Review A literature review is necessary to provide background information related to your current research, demonstrates your familiarity with related research, and establishes the ways in which you will contribute to the expertise in your field. Finding Sources Synthesizing.
Additional Guidance for Engineering Students Writing Engineering Papers Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science The essential aims of an Engineering paper: To identify an unsolved problem, and provide context for an issue To provide the reader with a thesis statement or hypothesis To provide appropriate evidence i.
The thesis is missing, or is not very persuasive. In a literature review, the paper provides a good summary of the resources but is vague in its conclusions. The authors have failed to properly cite their sources, or have plagiarized intentionally or unintentionally. Acronyms are not defined in the text on first mention. Tables and Figures are not referenced correctly, or at all, in the text.
Labels for Tables and Figures do not follow proper conventions.
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