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…

I am re-posting this important blog because as I read through Progress Reports, I am finding too many draft surveys that need revisions. Please take a moment and review your progress report to ensure you have correctly composed an ethical…

One of the central goals of this course is to demonstrate how — through doing; by peer reviewing and rewriting, reflecting, and re-writing again, by doing these tasks, over and over, it becomes clear that writing is an art that improves with…

Take a look at the example of a conclusion for a Formal Report on pages 513 – 514 in the text book and you will see that your final goal is to provide a list of recommendations. The ultimate purpose of…