Phil Druker/Department of English/ University of Idaho

Technical Writing, English 317
Phil Druker

FALL 2009

Office Hours

General Information about the course:

Syllabus    
Course guidelines--find specific information about course requirements, grades, assignments, and goals.
    How Grades are converted to numbers.
    Conferences schedule: Oct 6-12

Analyzing the writing situation--find information on what to consider before you
 start to write. (This is a summary of the course introduction.)
Course criteria-- find criteria for good technical writing and writing for the course.
Technical writing basic principles
General goals for technical writing 
Ethical issues
 

The project--find information about the project each student completes during the semester.
What is the difference between an essay and a technical report?

**Introductory letter assignment**  ç for the first week

Writing Instructions:

        Some general instructions for writing instructions
      

Writing Letters and Resumes:

Writing Proposals:

Progress Reports:

Progress report 1 outline for progress report on secondary research completed.
Progress report  1 sample--find a sample illustrating how to summarize secondary research you have completed.
Progress report 2 outline--find information on how to set up progress reports.

Section of Final Report:

Section of final report assignment
    Report section sample outline
Introductory memo for the section (assignment)
Description exercise--for the "section of the final report" assignment
Wiki exercise -- for the section of the final report assignment

Writing Final Reports:

Reports--find general outlines for writing technical reports.
Organize carefully
Analysis--find information on how to analyze in a report.
                Analysis sample
Definitions--find basic information about defining terms
Graphic aids--find information on using graphics.
Report Goals--find general information on goals for writing reports.
Final Report Assignment -- find information about putting the final report together.  Specific parts of the final report with samples are listed below.

    Front Matter:

Sentence Style:

             Style check assignment for proposal

            Style check II for section of the final report
               

Formatting details:

Oral Reports

What to turn in with the final report

 

(This page was last revised Aug 2009)