Lecture 8 General Review Lecture 1 Being an

Lecture (8) General Review

Lecture (1) • Being an engineer, you are a Technical Communicator. • Difference between raw data and information

• What is Technical Writing? Give examples for what Tech Writers write?

Lecture (2) • Communication Importance of engineer. definition and communication for

• Difference between communication cycle , communication triangle. • Define distortion or noise in the communication cycle

• Differentiate (compare) between general and technical communication, give examples.

• Types of communication, examples of written and oral forums of communication.

• Benefits of written communication.

Lecture (3) • What is Technical Writing? How is Technical Writing Different?

• Difference between report planning, report managing (steps). • Why-what-who technique for report writing.

• Technical report layout. (three general parts)

• Front matter importance and contents.

• Back matter importance and contents.

• Difference between introduction , Conclusion , Recommendations, and Methods.

Quiz • State five requirements of a good graph. • Importance of Hierarchical Headings in report writing (give example). • Define Bias , Plagiarism

Lecture (4) • Different Types of Technical Reports

• Proposals , requirements in proposals.

• Difference between Formal and Informal Proposals

• Progess report , relationship between proposals and progress reports.

• Feasibility and Recommendation Reports • How Do Feasibility and Recommendation Reports Differ?

• Laboratory and Project Reports • Difference between Laboratory and Project Reports.

• Research reports. • State of the art reports, historical reports.

• Difference between abstracts, and summary of reports.