Engl.204/Writing for the Technical Professions

Engl. 204--
TechnicalWriting



General information

Syllabus

Discussion Board

Editing, Readings for Assignment, and Sample Projects

Web Help Corner

Job Links

Research links

UB Library (opens in a new window)

Home

Language/Editing, Readings for Assignments, Sample Projects Links, and Power Point

Language and Editing:

Language/Editing: Writing, invention, revising

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

Language/Editing: Grammar and style

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/index.html

General Writing Help (including help with resumes, cover letters, research papers, research)

http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/

Sample Projects:

Sample Projects: Résumés/Application Letters

https://courses.worldcampus.psu.edu/welcome/engl202dsp05/

Sample Projects: Student Web Sites

See Web Help Corner

Sample Projects/Help: Rearch Paper

Proposal for a Solution

Research Paper for Graduate School

Evaluation of recent trends and products (see old-fashioned "dead-tree" hand-outs)

Reading for Assignments:

Résume/Cover Letter:

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/resume.html

http://cpolrhp.army.mil/ner/resumix/jobkit/cjobkit2.htm

http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/wharton/coverlet_wharton.html

Document Design/Graphics/Audience/Group Work

http://wps.ablongman.com/long_lannon_techcomm_9/0,7046,414496-,00.html (click on "web destinations")

http://cybermed.ucsd.edu/Web_design/group.html

Instructions/Manual

http://www.techstandards.com/contest.htm

http://www.prc.dk/user-friendly-manuals/home.html

more....

Research Paper

http://www.westwords.com/guffey/students.html

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/ResearchW/index.html

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/reportW/index.html

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/internet/search/index.html

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/EvalSrcW/index.html

Power Point Tutorial

http://www.bcschools.net/staff/PowerPointHelp.htm

Power Point Presentation Problems

http://www.communicateusingtechnology.com/articles/pptsurvey_article.htm

http://www.plasticsurgerydr.com/rpp.html

10 Dos and Don'ts

How NOT to design a PP Presentation

http://www.elmhurst.edu/library/courses/eng/WorstPresentationEverStandAlone.ppt

Editorial View: "Power Point Is Evil"

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/ppt2.html

Research Paper: How NOT to write a report/paper--"Paper Spoofer" program created by MIT students in 2005 (try it...it's fun! And it will look like a professional paper in the area of Technology, even though it will be nonsensical to anybody actually reading the paper).

http://www.pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/

Context:

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/permalink/automatic_paper_generator/