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Writing in a Business or Technical Setting

I want learn the technical side of writing because I will need to be able to write many procedure and analysis reports in my career.  Many people think that engineering is all math and science and nothing else, while engineering uses lots of math and science it is more of an application of them.  Engineers seldom work alone and for themselves, they typically work in groups and for a company. For this reason one needs to be able to communicate clearly and in detail about their work to other groups working on the project, their bosses, and most importantly customers.

                An example of this would be me working for a company that makes snowmobiles, my boss says he needs a new sled for 2014, so all the engineers get together and break up into groups to work on different aspects of the snowmobile. Group “A” is designing the body of the snowmobile and group “B” the engine, group “B” needs to know what group “A” is doing otherwise they will make two parts of a snowmobile that do not fit together. Group “A” needs to be able to document what they are doing and present it to group “B” so they know how big and heavy the engine is so it works with the body of the sled, they then bring it to their boss to get it approved.

                A technical paper may include the following elements;

1.       Introduction

2.       Procedures

3.       Results

4.       What the results mean

5.       Recommendations for future work

6.       References and acknowledgments

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