This class introduces students to the interdisciplinary nature of 21st-century engineering projects with three threads of learning: a technical toolkit, a social science toolkit, and a methodology for problem-based learning. Students encounter the social, political, economic, and technological challenges of engineering practice by participating in real engineering projects with faculty and industry; this semester's major project focuses on the engineering and economics of solar cells. Student teams will create prototypes and mixed media reports with exercises in project planning, analysis, design, optimization, demonstration, reporting and team building.

This textbook for professional and technical communication is a compilation of several Open Resource materials. The purpose in its design is to provide a wide variety of materials on subjects in professional and technical communication, and to offer several different perspectives and delivery modes of those materials.

This course is an introduction to the history, theory, practice, and implications of rhetoric, the art and craft of persuasion. This course specifically focuses on the ways that scientists use various methods of persuasion in the construction of scientific knowledge.

This class develops the abilities of students to communicate science effectively in a variety of real-world contexts. It covers strategies for dealing with complex areas like theoretical physics, genomics and neuroscience, and addresses challenges in communicating about topics such as climate change and evolution. Projects focus on speaking and writing, being an expert witness, preparing briefings for policy-makers, writing blogs, and giving live interviews for broadcast, as well as the creation of an interactive exhibit for display in the MIT Museum.

This course provides an introduction to writing about science (including medicine, technology, and engineering) for general readers. With a strong emphasis in background research, this course will help students build a foundation for strong science writing. Students will read works by accomplished science writers. Each assignment will focus on a different popular form, such as news articles, interviews, essays, and short features.

Proficiency in communicating about science and technology comes from both knowledge and practice, and this course emphasizes both. Through a variety of reading and writing assignments, we will examine general principles of good writing, as well as principles associated specifically with scientific and technical writing. We will also explore the effects of new media as avenues for communicating about science.

This class is an introduction to writing about science—including nature, medicine and technology—for general readers. In our reading and writing we explore the craft of making scientific concepts, and the work of scientists, accessible to the public through articles and essays.

A list of resources compiled by Jim Allen, Elizabeth Cicchetti, Jill Grauman, Augie Morado, and Annie Schnarr for English 1105: Workplace Writing and English 1110: Technical Writing at the College of DuPage. All materials are licensed as indicated in the source material

Technical Writing Reading and Video List

WR 227 Technical Writing

Introduces students to the types of writing they will encounter in business, industry, the academic world and government. It examines the rhetorical nature of writing and asks students to think critically about content, audience, argument and structure. Students will learn how to effectively design documents, present instructions, create proposals and produce technical reports.

WR 227: Technical Writing Syllabus

Course Description:

Students will learn the basics of technical writing in this course. Technical writing is all that professional writing, which is not popular journalism or creative writing. WR 227 studies the composition of reports required in the technical and business professions. The course focuses on producing usable, reader-centered content that is clear, concise, and ethical. It includes the procedures of fact gathering through both primary and secondary research, organization, graphic layout, and other methods of compiling data. Students will learn to locate and evaluate source information; quote, paraphrase, and summarize sources effectively; cite sources and format this information in a particular documentation style or with a style sheet. We’ll be producing memos, letters, reports, and job search materials.

Course Objectives Reflecting Expected Student Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this course a student will be able to:
• Use efficient and effective research techniques to gather primary and secondary data
• Present findings in a well-written and sufficiently supported report tailored to the needs of a specific audience
• Demonstrate different formats of technical writing as well as basic concepts of style and document design to increase readability of technical documents
• Incorporate and accurately document source information according to a specific documentation style such as MLA or APA
• Demonstrate collaborative writing skills

This OER textbook is a remix of existing open material. The text was assembled by Adam Karnes, English adjunct at Linn-Benton Community College

Welcome to WR 227, our Technical and Professional Writing 1 course! WR 227 introduces
technical and professional communications. As a student in this course, you can expect to
compose, design, revise, and edit effective letters, memos, reports, descriptions, instructions, and
employment documents. This course emphasizes precise use of language and graphics to
communicate complex technical and procedural information safely, legally, and ethically. Two
instructor conferences are required.

This course is taken by mechanical engineering majors during their senior year to prepare a detailed thesis proposal under the guidance of staff from the Writing Program. The thesis proposal must bear the endorsement of the thesis supervisor and indicate the number of units planned.
This course is offered during the Independent Activities Period (IAP), which is a special 4-week term at MIT that runs from the first week of January until the end of the month.

A textbook focusing on writing in the workplace, with an emphasis on audience analysis, writing for specific situations, document design, research processes, and visual aids.

Through an adult-led field trip, students organized into investigation teams catalogue the incidence of plastic debris in different environments. They investigate these plastics according to their type, age, location and other characteristics that might indicate what potential they have for becoming part of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). Students collect qualitative and quantitative data that may be used to create a Google Earth layer as part of a separate activity that can be completed at a computer lab at school or as homework. The activity is designed as a step on the way to student's creation of their own GIS Google Earth layer. It is, however, possible for the field trip to be a useful learning experience unto itself that does not require this last GIS step.

Writing Commons aspires to be a community for writers, a creative learning space for students in courses that require college-level writing, a creative, interactive space for teachers to share resources and pedagogy. Our primary goal is to provide the resources and community students need to improve their writing, particularly students enrolled in courses that require college-level writing. As mentioned in 'About Us', we believe learning materials should be free for all students and teachers‰ part of the cultural commons. Hence, we provide free access to an award-winning, college textbook that was published by a major publisher and awarded the Distinguished Book Award by Computers and Composition: an International Journal.

This book explores writing in the workplace by examining theoretical and practical approaches to professional and technical writing. The book chapters focus on knowledge and skills, including writing in digital spaces and how to be an ethically considerate communicator. Each chapter is designed to help students understand what professional writers do on the job. This text also includes discussion on what students can consider about their professional presence as they begin to enter the workplace as writers.