• Individual contributor
• Writing collaboratively and the importance of single-voicing

Evaluating and writing to your target audience

• Technically-sophisticated audiences
• Writing conventions used by your discipline
• Technically-naive audiences
• Placing abstract information into context for the reader
• Making your report “scannable”
• Reports translated for foreign audiences
• Controlled English
• Standardized formats

Effective reports and proposals

• How technical reports are read
• Types of reports
• Importance of each section in the report Frontmatter, Body of the report, Backmatter, Index, Glossary
• Distinguishing between information belonging in a report from that which belongs in an appendix

Developing a readable style

• Sentence structure
• Paragraph development
• When to worry about the English

Using tables, graphs, and illustrations

Engineering/Science writing conventions

• Numbers
• Units
• Equations
• Symbols

Writing abstracts and summaries

Instructor
James Moran

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