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Class Information

• English 303 Home Page
• English 303 Syllabus
• Checklist of Assignments
• Calendar of Due Dates

Basic Information about Technical Writing

Textbook Focus Section, a Study Guide to the primary textbook, Technical Communication:  Situations and Strategies, 6th ed. by Mike Markel.  The Textbook Focus information is intended to help you in your week by week assignments in the textbook, including the homework which must be submitted. The Textbook Focus section tells you the terms and concepts that you should know and points out specific pages that you must be sure to read.  Also, the Textbook Focus section adds some explanations you need to know. Be sure to read the Focus section for each week's assignments.

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.  Introduction Text Spacing Discussion of Heading and Heading Levels; includes Examples Graphics Margins White Space Lists Page Numbering To view a PowerPoint Presentation on Text Formatting in English 303, click HERE. If you do not have PowerPoint on your computer, click HERE to download a PowerPoint Viewer.

Here is a Search Engine to search the English 303 Internet site only.  Use it if you cannot find a term, concept, idea, or assignment in the listings below.   Try out this Search Engine by searching for a term such as "induction."
 

ht://Dig Search Engine Use to search the English 303 Web site. Match: All  Any  Format:  Long  Short

Logical Analysis, Induction and Deduction, Graphics, Documentation and Plagiarism, and other Terms and Concepts:

• The Scientific Method and Logical Analysis
  
 
• Induction, Deduction, and Categorical Syllogisms
  
 
• Graphics, including Propositional Knowledge, Simultaneous and Successive Presentation of Information, and the Three Types of Graphics, with Examples

• Information about Documentation and Plagiarism
  
 
• How to Take Notes: Examples of Note Cards and Source Cards
  
 
• Summarizing, Quoting, and Citing Print and Electronic Sources
  
 
• Other Terms and Concepts, including
• Four Technical Writing Audiences,
• Informative and Descriptive Abstracts
• White Space
• Grammar

Instructions for the Writing of Different Types of Technical Writing Papers:

• Process and Instruction Papers
• Description of Processes and Instructions
  
 
• Proposals
• English 303 Proposal Form
  
 
• Two Examples of Proposals
  
 
• Sentence Outlines
• Discussion of Sentence Outlines
  
 
• An Example of a Sentence Outline
  
 
• Long Report Information
• 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.
  
  
• Information on Beginning the Long Report, including a discussion of Criteria
  
 
• Sample Long Report Problem-Solving Topics
  
 
• Sources of Information and Documentation for the Long Report
  
 
• A List of the Long Report Sections (Title Page through Appendix) and Discussion of Long Report Headings
  
 
• Examples of Each Section of the Long Report (Title Page through Appendix); Includes information on Text Spacing
  
 
• Checklist on Long Report Sections as to Content and Form (use for preparing the final copy)
  
 
• The Final Examination
• Discussion of the Final Examination
  
 
• Job Search Information
• Explanation of the Letter of Application and Resume
  
 
• Examples of the Letter of Application and Resume
  
 
• Menu of Internet-Based Resources
  
 
The following resources can be accessed through the above link:
 
• Job Search Services
• Society for Technical Communication Job Bank
• On-line Writing Help
• On-line Research Sources
• Engines to Search the Web

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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

• (318) 257-2660 (office)
• (318) 255-6045 (home)
• (318) 257-3935 (FAX)

English 303 Internet material updated March 2005.