TC300 note

Catalog

• Course Introduction
  * Common Tenses and Voices
• Writing Email
• Resume
• CV
• Peer-reviewed Article Publishing
• Citation
• Technical Project Deliverables

Course Introduction

What is TC?
Communication that presents specific information to a specific audience for a specific purpose

• who is audience?
• what information are we commmunicating?
• why are we communicating

Criteria of TC:

• Accuracy
• Brevity
• • no need for complex sentense, idea itself is complicated enough
• Clarify

Topics:

• Workplace-related communications
• Technical project design through a problem-need-solution framework
• Diagrams and data visualization, reporting results
• Paraphrasing, direct quotation, citation(AIAA)
• presentation skills

Requirements

• No late homework submission
• Attendance and active participation
• HC & plagiarism

Common Tenses and Voices

Tenses

• Use present tense a lot.
• If action happens in the past and is done, use past tense (if is true till now, use present tense(project, theorms))

Voices

• Use active voice, engaged and easier to read
• Use passive voice to put emphasis on action or the subject is unknow
• Do not use we, be objective

Writing Email

Components:

• address lines
• subject line
• salutation
• introduction, body and conclusion
• closing
• signiture
• signiture section

Notes:

• no conversation
• don’t send confidential information
• one single page is enough
• forward to others only when is authorized
• pause before sending
• clean out mailboxes

Three different levels of formality:

1. Personal, brief notes
2. Memo style
3. Letter style: formal business emails

Be careful when using !, it is super strong tone, meaning frustrated, very very angry.

Resume

Common traits

How to state your impact?

• What was differnent or better when you finish?
• What were obstacles and how did you get around them?
• What did you learn in that experience?

Name & Time:

• Yulin Chen
• Chen, Yulin
• May 2022

#CV
Sections:

• Contact info
• Education
• Experience
• Teaching

Peer-reviewed Article Publishing

Process

• Manuscript prepared by authors
• Submission(System)
• • may reject by AI if format is wrong
• Initial Eval.(Managing editor)
• • may reject if logic wrong
• Editor’s Eval.(Chief editors)
• • if not good enough, may reject
• Reviewing(Reviewers)
• read review advice(Editor)
• • if need author’s Rev. give back to author, then submit again
• • no thing required, publish
• • or reject if still not good enough

Citation

• name [index]
• endOfSentense [index1-index2].
• • the sentense is a summary of works cited ad index1-index2(multiple references)
• endOfSentense. [index]
• • cover several sentenses ahead

General Rule : if not cited, you are claiming that it is your own work.
Five-consecutive-word Rule
So we need paraphrasing

• Use different vacabulary
• Change order of words
• Different grammar/sentense structure

Style:

• MLA
• • Modern Language Association
• APA
• CMS
• AAAS
• AIAA
• ACS
• IEEE has many different styles

Technical Project Deliverables

Deliverables:

• Project
• Solution
• Finding
• Publication
• Patent
  all end up with a report

TC element

• Audience
• • Potential/existing customers, fellow engineers, colleagues from other departments
• • Professors, classmates, staffs
• • General readers interested
• Information
• • Project’s ‘result’ (not everything of the project)
• Purpose
• • Promote new product, share experience, establish status within, provide solution…

General Design Logic

• Describe problem at hand
• • General/broad topic
• • Narrow down gradually
• Analyze need