Bringing an emphasis on technical writing to a freshman course in electrical engineering

JE Mahan, A Jayasumana, D Lile… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2000 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The authors have recently added a strong writing component to one of their freshman
courses in electrical engineering. The students prepared two kinds of reports-memoranda
and formal engineering project reports. The authors' instructional objectives were to execute
well these two forms: to write with a professional tone, and to make good choices about
which technical material to include. To meet these objectives, model memos and
engineering project reports were developed, lectures about these memos and reports were …

Bringing an emphasis on technical writing to a freshman course in electrical engineering

M Palmquist, D Lile, A Jayasumana, JE Mahan - mountainscholar.org
We have recently added a strong writing component to one of our freshman courses in
electrical engineering. The students prepared two kinds of reports—memoranda and formal
engineering project reports. Our instructional objectives were to execute well these two
forms: to write with a professional tone, and to make good choices about which technical
material to include. To meet these objectives, model memos and engineering project reports
were developed, lectures about these memos and reports were presented, a Web site for the …
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