Class Information
Basic Information about Technical Writing
Researching the Long
Report: How to get from Sources to Notes
and Photocopies to the Report
to Documentation of the Report.
This
information is critical in order to write a successful Long
Report
in this course.
Formatting
of Technical Writing Papers -- This information
will
be used in all of the papers to be written in this course. In the
following list, it is particularly important that you become familiar
and
proficient in using Headings,
Lists,
and Graphics. These three elements are the primary
charactersitics of technical writing; these three elements serve to
make
technical writing different in form from essay writing. You will
be using Headings, Lists, and Graphics in most of the assignments in
this
course.
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site only. Use it if you cannot find a term, concept,
idea,
or assignment in the listings below. Try out this
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Engine by searching for a term such as "induction."
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Logical Analysis, Induction and Deduction, Graphics, Documentation and Plagiarism, and other Terms and Concepts:
Instructions for the Writing of Different Types of Technical Writing Papers:
These pages about Technical Writing and English 303 at Louisiana Tech University were done by
Dr. Dennis Minor
Professor, Department of English
Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts
Louisiana Tech University
Ruston, LA 71272
English 303 Internet material updated March 2005.