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.
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