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“There weren’t any specific writing courses required for an ME degree other than the general university requirements when I started the program.” (Jensen). K.C. Jenson has been in his career as a Mechanical Engineer for two years, his perspective is very up to date and can really relate to prospective engineers. Looking at the University of Utah Mechanical Engineering program flow chart, there are no requirements for writing, however, writing 2010 is a recommended General education course. This class is a class about rhetorical analysis and technical writing which is something that is essential to engineering. K.C said he took “a couple of elective classes (technical writing and topics in the history of

A common joke within engineering is that engineers need a meeting to plan a meeting, this is only overshadowed by the endless cycle pictured to the right. When writing these very “necessary” emails, engineers need to balance their highly specialized language with understandable concepts a non-engineer would understand and comprehend. To top this off an engineer does not only need to master their own specialized language to successfully communicate with other engineers, they must also understand and use business terminology when speaking to customers and managers. Therefore, Engineers must be literate in engineering and business to be

As a freshman at the University of Maryland, I am pursuing a Masters degree in Computer Science with a specialization in Cyber Security. I formerly attended the Academy of Health Sciences at Prince George’s Community College, a dual enrollment program in which I graduated with my High school diploma and an Associates of Arts degree in General Studies. Having a unique experience by attending these different school has allowed me to become familiar with technical communication in a multitude of ways, whether it is in the work place or school related. Being vice president of the national honor society, being a barista at Peet’s coffee shop, and with being fluent in multiple languages I have used technical communication to encourage people to “take action” in a multitude of ways. Whether it was influencing people to join the national honors society or trying to get customers to buy a new coffee drink, I have consistently been able to encourage others to “take action” with whatever it may be. Over time I have learned the do’s and don’ts of being a technical communicator, and I now understand what must be done to accomplish a task through technical communication.

From elementary school to high school, I was taught that my writing had to be structured and follow strict criteria. After I arrived in Mr. Mukherjee’s ENG 102 class, I was given the opportunity to express my creative freedom through words and graphical pictures. It can often be difficult and challenging to improve upon my own writing abilities unless motived with an idea in mind. When looking back on my time at ASU, I thought about the goals that I wanted to address for myself and the course goals that my instructor had set for the class. These goals include ones that I had accomplished to the best of my ability and ones that I need to address as well as improve.

There are various types of writing that are done that occur in different situations and for different audiences. Technical writing, which is also referred to as business writing, is done in a business or work atmosphere. This differs from academic writing, that is done in school, in the purpose, context, and audiences. Also, these differ in the expected amount of errors, some in academic and none in business, and the confidentiality.

Read Ch. 20, “Proposals and Requests for Proposals,” of Technical Communication in the Twenty-First Century.

The novel “The Circuit” began in El Rancho Blanco, Mexico, then continues to California. They travel many places in California because they have come to the United States illegally. The characters are Papa, Mama, Roberto, Panchito, Trampita, Ruben, and Rorra. The basic situation is: the family has always wanted to move to California thinking that they will get a better life, but instead end up getting worse, and being taken by La migra. That is “The Circuit” exposition.

My writing skills have allowed me to communicate effectively with colleagues, vendors, and project stakeholders. While working at the District, I have written many technology reports, design guides, implementation guidelines and strategies, and infrastructure recommendation reports. These documents have been used to make many decisive technology decisions for the district over the years. Although not required of me, my extensive knowledge of District infrastructure has led me to present to the School Board on several occasions. My oral communication skills have allowed me to rise to the occasion to present technological ideas to district leadership. My involvement in a joint powers arrangement between the District and the City means I am one of the main points of communication between the two entities making communicating effectively crucial.

Undergraduate programs in recent years have become more and more specialized and there is a lack of diversity in the writing styles taught in writing classes. This has led to students being less prepared to enter the workplace and less qualified than the people who know the writing style of the specific job.

I wanted to share with all of my colleagues the information I found on enhancing your technical writing skills. Guidelines from these three sources will increase productivity. (Natchez, Fogel, & Tosello, 2003) TechProse is a technical writing, training, and information technology consulting company in business since 1982.What this company does it’s going to help us employees create logical and professional letters, reports, surveys and bring more customers to our company. Sometimes as writers we get stuck and don’t know where to start writing our reports. Well, first determine a purpose; grab the attention of the audience.

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Executive Summary: This report provides and explanation, examination and recommendations of listening, questioning and feedback as interpersonal skills in the engineering field. Each of the three skills were defined using an academic textbook. These skills of listening questioning and feedback were than all examined using journal articles to find benefits of them in relation to the engineering field. The major challenges including the fact that technical skills are currently the focus in an engineering environment and not interpersonal skills meaning that listening, questioning and feedback skills won’t be as effective as they could be. The other challenge listed is that engineering workplaces are mainly made up of multinational people which means that English is unlikely to be the first language for some. This in turn creates a significant communication barrier which can be hard to remove. From the examination and challenges of the three skills it can be concluded that these skills are important to ones success in this field and should be taught and focused on more at university level. If these skills were more of a focus at

Firstly, R.Ryan Nelson (2007) referred to 10 of the most infamous IT projects to assert the importance of making a careful analysis of projects that have occurred to help future projects. In order to attest this opinion, he illustrated the case of United Kingdom’s

Resistivity:- : It is defined is the resistance of a unit volume of a conductor measured across it. It is denoted by (Rho) Reliance of a conductor can increase or decrease based in proportion to its length and area.