Writing Tip: Keep your focus on conciseness  staying in present tense whenever possible, will help cut out unnecessary words avoiding two and three verbs in a row will also assist with clarity and conciseness FOR EXAMPLE: “I have developed my technical writing skills through…

English 301 Lesson 1:3 Assignments: Peer review Organizing Peer Reviews: Peer reviews should be organized with sub-headings and bullet points Sub-headings should include each element of the document as well as general elements First Impressions is a good way to…

Good Monday Morning 301 We are having a good beginning, we have a few late-comers who will get caught up this week and be prepared to submit the first Team assignment by mid-week. I will spend the week reading your…

Hello 301 Welcome to our course of studies together and Welcome to my Instructor’s Blog I will post new blogs on a regular basis and you should read before beginning each week’s lesson. The principle purpose of this Blog is to respond to your…

Requests for extensions at the end of the semester: While I am sorry to hear about difficulties keeping up and the pressures of final exams, unless a student is ill — it is not really fair to other students (who…

This is a re-post of a re-post of a blog that too many people seem to have missed or forgotten. One of the tricks of technical writing is to avoid generalities and provide details – as concisely as possible. Here…

Here is an example of a well-handled Methods Section. The Introduction section of a Formal Report always includes a Method Section that provides a description of the methodology. It is important to remain concise and at the same time provide…

When drafting your Formal Report keep in mind the three most common and serious errors: Writing with a negative tone: Avoid the negative. Writing with a demanding tone: Respect your reader, edit out imperative verbs. Writing information that your reader…

Hopefully, the YOU attitude hand-out and lesson has made a BIG impression on the significance of pronouns (and imperative verbs) in terms of shaping the tone and clarity of your writing. I have been asked why I wait until this…

You can find a few post on Writing with YOU attitude on this blog, if you search. However, learning the techniques of writing with YOU attitude is so valuable, I am dedicating this page to a collection of past YOU…