This document contains course notes and exercises for a course in technical writing. The course is intended for third-year computer engineering majors, and emphasizes technical documentation directed to engineers, engineering managers, technical writers, and other specialized audiences. Exercises include job applications and résumés, memos, electronic correspondence, algorithm description, in-program documentation, naive-user documentation, survey articles, recommendation letters, proposal writing, document specification, progress reports, formal technical reports, and an oral presentation.
Students are expected to have reading knowledge of PASCAL or C, and to be able to follow explanations of recursive algorithms.
technical writing, computer engineering, writing for engineers
Kevin Karplus - Dan Scripture
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Some of the assignments in this workbook were originally created by Renny Christopher, and have been used here with minor modifications. We thank Renny for giving us permission to use these assignments. Tracy Larrabee has taught using this workbook several times--her feedback and editing have been invaluable.