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:
- Personal, brief notes
- Memo style
- 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
