21W.780 | Fall 2001 | Undergraduate

Communicating in Technical Organizations

The required text for the class is:

Perelman, Paradis, and Barrett. The Mayfield Handbook of Technical and Scientific Writing. McGraw-Hill, 1997.

SES # READINGS
1 In Mayfield read:

Sections 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 (Planning and Producing Documents)
Section 2.5 (Letters)
Section 2.13 (Resumes)
Section 4 (Graphs and Figures)
2 In Mayfield read:

Sections 2.10 (Oral Presentations)
Section 1.11 (Reviewing a Document)
Section 2.6 (Proposals)
3 In Mayfield read:

Section 3 (Elements of Technical Documents)
4 In Mayfield read:

Section 2.3 (Literature Reviews)
5 In Mayfield read:

Section 2.4.5 (Progress Reports)
6 In Mayfield read:

Section 2.4 (Reports)
Section 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 (Elements of Opening of Reports)

Course Info

As Taught In
Fall 2001
Learning Resource Types
Presentation Assignments
Written Assignments