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Welcome to Technical Reporting ENL6320

Welcome to Technical Reporting ENL6320. May 24, 2013. Agenda. Review of Peer Consultation Wikis & Blogs Online Surveys Literature Review (sample 1) Show Progress in Gantt Charts Review Gantt Charts. Peer Consultation. Goals: Practice listening, paraphrasing and positive feedback

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Welcome to Technical Reporting ENL6320

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  1. Welcome to Technical ReportingENL6320 May 24, 2013

  2. Agenda • Review of Peer Consultation • Wikis & Blogs • Online Surveys • Literature Review (sample 1) • Show Progress in Gantt Charts • Review Gantt Charts

  3. Peer Consultation • Goals: • Practice listening, paraphrasing and positive feedback • Practice ‘elevator speech’ technique for your project • Practice brainstorming and problem solving in small group • Practice consulting with peers about technical issues • Practice recording ideas in short form, but with enough detail so that they can be understood later • Practice all this with a time limit • What might improve this activity next time?

  4. Your Website or Blog • Visual effect is very important • Design on paper first: • How many webpages? (eg: if you have more than 1 audience, or a lot of diff kinds of info...) • What graphics will help? (photos, charts, maps, logo, cliparts). A picture can be worth a 1000 words so choose carefully. • What would appeal to your audience? Sample: http://ibiotp.weebly.com

  5. Wikis & Websites • A wiki is just a website which allows for collaborative work with many authors. For your project you may use a wiki or a website. There are many options, here are two: 1. Website: go to www.weebly.com 2. Wiki: go to: www.pbworks.com Choose Free and select option for Gr K-12 Education

  6. Blogs • There are many free blog hosting options, here are 3: • Blog www.blog.com • Blogger www.blogger.com • Wordpresswww.wordpress.com I have created a Blog for iBioTp. You are invited to join and practice blogging: http://ibiotp.blogspot.ca/

  7. Creating Online Surveys • Which type of Question? • Connecting questions • Side-by-side questions • Instructions & Headers • Branching =Page, Advanced Branching Wizard • Visual Editor = change fonts, add links etc • Theme = colours, images etc • Which kind of report? • Note: you may use any survey tool you wish. Here is one: www.fluidsurveys.com

  8. How to Start a Literature Review • Start with narrowing down your topic so that you can limit to about 5 docs. • Highlight key phrases from each • Create a rough bulleted summary for each • Look at all the points and determine how to group them. Then organize the groups with and add strong opening & concluding lines. • For this project, organize the groups into these three categories: a) Key ideas and how do they support each other? b) What are the controversies? c) What are the ‘holes’ in the research?

  9. Sample Literature Review Example of a Lit Review: • http://faculty.mwsu.edu/psychology/Laura.Spiller/Experimental/sample_apa_style_litreview.pdf Example of how to write a Lit Review: • http://www.york.cuny.edu/~washton/student/Org-Behavior/lit_rev_eg.pdf

  10. Using Gantt Charts How to Show Progress on Gantt Charts Two ways to do this: • View, Toolbars, Tracking (updating several tasks) • Tools, Tracking, Update Tasks (updating one task) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wasdZ8xlB8&feature=related How to Show Critical Path on Gantt Charts • MS 2010 Critical path http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyGb-cf_gQg

  11. Importing Gantt into MSWord Here are 2 of the options: • Use Copy Picture in MSProject see notes • In MSProject save as PDF then import into MSWord:

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