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The Craft of Scientific Writing

The Craft of Scientific Writing. Michael Alley College of Engineering Penn State. How well you communicate affects your career. Survey (Richard M. Davis) Successful engineers spent 25% of work week writing. Survey (Wisconsin)

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The Craft of Scientific Writing

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  1. The Craft of Scientific Writing • Michael Alley • College of Engineering • Penn State

  2. How well you communicate affects your career • Survey (Richard M. Davis) • Successful engineers spent 25% of work week writing • Survey (Wisconsin) • Professional engineers found writing their most useful subject in college • Survey (Virginia Tech) • Recruiters claim that engineers need more work on their writing

  3. The documents in a project often followa specific sequence Proposals Papers, Posters, and Final Reports Ideas • Progress Reports

  4. You should begin the process of scientific writing by analyzing your constraints • who are they? • what do they know? • why are they reading? • what biases do they have? • audience • purpose • occasion • form • process • to inform • to persuade • General Scientific Document

  5. Form embodies the format and mechanics of the writing • mechanics • grammar • usage • punctuation • spelling • format • typography • layout

  6. who are they? • what do they know? • why are they reading? • what biases do they have? • Exercise: Pair up and discuss the audience of your next document • audience

  7. Language • Structure This course focuses on style, which is the way that you express the ideas of your work • Illustration

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