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The Art of Writing Scientific Reports

Description: As the purpose of the report is to transmit as smoothly and as easily as possible, certain facts and ideas, to the average person likely to read it, it should be written in a full and simple enough manner to be comprehended by the least tutored, and still not be boring to the more learned readers.
Date: March 1921
Creator: Norton, F. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Relationships Among Writing Quality, Attitudes Toward Writing, and Attitudes Toward Computers in a Computer-Mediated Technical Writing Class for English as a Foreign Language Students

Description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of word processor use by foreign college writers and their attitudes toward writing, writing revision practices, writing quality, attitudes toward the use of computers, and time spent on computers. The results indicate that students' attitudes toward writing and their perceptions of computer usefulness significantly affected their writing quality. Students with more positive attitudes toward writing and the usefulness of computers t… more
Date: May 1992
Creator: Thaipakdee, Supaporn
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Teaching STEM undergraduates discipline-specific writing skills: A data-driven learning approach

Description: Paper presented at the 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. The research presented was funded by the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education and seeks to improve the quality of technical writing instruction for undergraduate STEM students by creating a data-driven learning approach for teaching STEM students writing patterns specific to their respective disciplines.
Date: 2019-06-15/2019-06-19
Creator: Boettger, Ryan K. & Wulff, Stefanie
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Explicitly teaching five technical genres to English first-language adults in a multi-major technical writing course

Description: In this article, the author reports the effects of explicitly teaching five technical genres to English first-language students enrolled in a multi-major technical writing course. Previous experimental research has demonstrated the efficacy of explicitly teaching academic writing to English first-language adults, but no comparable study on technical writing exists.
Date: 2014
Creator: Boettger, Ryan K.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Standard Practices Guide for Writing Experimental Operating Manuals

Description: This is a sample operating manual designed to aid experimenters in writing operating manuals for MTR and ETR experiments. It contains what is felt to be the necessary information for operating a particular experiment. One of the main functions of an operating manual is to provide quick reference to material needed in an emergency. It is believed this type of manual provides the required information without an excessive amount of bulky, surplus material.
Date: December 15, 1958
Creator: Ford, J. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Student Interior Design Laboratory Manual for Perspective Drawing 134

Description: This paper is to present a student interior design laboratory manual for Perspective Drawing 134. A mechanical and freehand approach to the grid method of perspective is used. Chapter I reviews the significance of the problem, definitions of terms of perspective, data sources and method of procedure. Chanter II explains a brief overview of perspective from primitive man to its present use in interior design. Chapter III reviews the general principles of perspective. Chapter IV presents the grid… more
Date: May 1977
Creator: Farias, Anna Laura
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Communicating across barriers at home and abroad

Description: This paper intends to catalyze the exchange of experience among technical communicators in meeting the challenge of communicating across a multitude of barriers: linguistic, disciplinary, cultural, political, intellectual, and emotional.
Date: January 1, 1985
Creator: McDonald, J.W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Toward a Rhetoric of Marketing for High-Tech Services

Description: The market for high-tech services is expanding, and writers will have to create more documents to market these services. Researchers note marked differences between traditional goods marketing and services marketing. A rhetorical framework for high-tech services marketing will give writers a tool for creating effective marketing messages. This study examines the five canons of rhetoric in their classical context, and then examines how the first professional teachers, the Sophists, used rhetoric… more
Date: December 1999
Creator: Willerton, David Russell
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Training the unseasoned technical writer-editor: From the trainee's perspective

Description: Many unseasoned technical writer-editors who are not adequately trained may become seasoned inadequately trained technical writer-editors. This problem can occur when a trainee is involved in an ineffective training program, but it can be alleviated by the trainer's assessing the unseasoned writer's talents, becoming involved with the trainee's growth in writing and editing skills, and helping him to visualize his potential as a technical writer-editor. Assessment, support, mentoring, and nurtu… more
Date: January 1, 1991
Creator: Gibbs, B.R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Writing reports to facilitate patent applications.

Description: Brief disclosures may often be sufficient for the filing of a Technical Advance with Sandia's Intellectual Property Center, but still be inadequate to facilitate an optimum patent application where more detail and explanation are required. Consequently, the crafting of a patent application may require considerably more additional interaction between the application preparer and the inventors. This inefficiency can be considerably mitigated if the inventors address some critical aspects of a pat… more
Date: June 1, 2004
Creator: Libman, George H. & Doerry, Armin Walter
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Going four-dimensional at a national laboratory

Description: The four-dimensional principle, as explained by Horton, is founded upon the notion that our senses and mind prefer dynamic, life-like images -- we understand and enjoy pictures better than words and raw data. Whenever we convert information to graphical images, we increase the number of readers, improve our chances of being understood, and increase the impact of our document. In this paper, we discuss our efforts to engage today's audience by applying the visual approach to our communication wo… more
Date: October 1, 1990
Creator: Stapp, D.C.; Thielman, J. & Gorst, W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Proposed Technical Communication Degree Program for Texas Colleges and Universities

Description: This investigation is concerned with the problem of Texas employers' inability to hire adequately trained technical communication personnel because Texas universities and colleges do not offer a bachelor's degree program for that career field. This study contains the results of five separate surveys that investigate the backgrounds and training of present technical communication personnel and the training desired by supervisory personnel. The study also recommends a bachelor's degree program in… more
Date: May 1978
Creator: Walker, Ronald O.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Writer's Guide for technical procedures

Description: A primary objective throughout the Department of Energy (DOE) complex is that operations be conducted in a deliberate and controlled manner with emphasis upon recognition and maintenance of the facility-specific safety envelope. One critical element of maintaining the safety envelope is procedures. DOE is providing guidance through this and other writer's guides to assist procedure writers across the DOE complex in producing accurate, complete, and usable procedures that promote safe and effici… more
Date: September 1, 1991
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Journal of Advanced Composition, Volume 3, Numbers 1 & 2, Spring & Fall, 1982

Description: The Journal of Advanced Composition contains a collection of papers regarding writing and rhetoric: "The JAC is a forum for theory, research and pedagogy regarding (1) those writing courses beyond the freshman courses, excluding technical and creative writing, (2) writing in courses which are not themselves writing courses, particularly in the liberal arts and sciences, and (3) work in theory, research or pedagogy which is advanced or progressive and will shed light on the field as a whole whil… more
Date: 1983
Creator: Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition (U.S.)
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Journal of Advanced Composition, Volume 6, 1985-1986

Description: The Journal of Advanced Composition contains a collection of papers regarding writing and rhetoric: "The JAC is a forum for theory, research and pedagogy regarding (1) those writing courses beyond the freshman courses, excluding technical and creative writing, (2) writing in courses which are not themselves writing courses, particularly in the liberal arts and sciences, and (3) work in theory, research or pedagogy which is advanced or progressive and will shed light on the field as a whole whil… more
Date: 1988
Creator: Lally, Tim D. P.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Instrumentation and Controls Division progress report for the period July 1, 1988 to June 30, 1990. Volume 2

Description: The format of this Instrumentation and Controls Division progress report is a major departure from previous reports. This report has been published in two volumes instead of one, and the description of individual activities have been shortened considerably to make it easier document to scan and to read. Volume 1 of this report presents brief descriptions of a few highly significant programmatic and technological efforts representative of Instrumentation and Controls Division activities over the… more
Date: December 1, 1990
Creator: Klobe, L. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Journal of Advanced Composition, Volume 5, 1984

Description: The Journal of Advanced Composition contains a collection of papers regarding writing and rhetoric: "The JAC is a forum for theory, research and pedagogy regarding (1) those writing courses beyond the freshman courses, excluding technical and creative writing, (2) writing in courses which are not themselves writing courses, particularly in the liberal arts and sciences, and (3) work in theory, research or pedagogy which is advanced or progressive and will shed light on the field as a whole whil… more
Date: 1987
Creator: Lally, Tim D. P.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Journal of Advanced Composition, Volume 12, Number 2, Fall 1992

Description: The Journal of Advanced Composition contains a collection of papers regarding writing and rhetoric: "The JAC is a forum for theory, research and pedagogy regarding (1) those writing courses beyond the freshman courses, excluding technical and creative writing, (2) writing in courses which are not themselves writing courses, particularly in the liberal arts and sciences, and (3) work in theory, research or pedagogy which is advanced or progressive and will shed light on the field as a whole whil… more
Date: 1992
Creator: Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition (U.S.)
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Journal of Advanced Composition, Volume 10, Number 2, 1990

Description: The Journal of Advanced Composition contains a collection of papers regarding writing and rhetoric: "The JAC is a forum for theory, research and pedagogy regarding (1) those writing courses beyond the freshman courses, excluding technical and creative writing, (2) writing in courses which are not themselves writing courses, particularly in the liberal arts and sciences, and (3) work in theory, research or pedagogy which is advanced or progressive and will shed light on the field as a whole whil… more
Date: 1990
Creator: Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition (U.S.)
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Journal of Advanced Composition, Volume 10, Number 1, 1990

Description: The Journal of Advanced Composition contains a collection of papers regarding writing and rhetoric: "The JAC is a forum for theory, research and pedagogy regarding (1) those writing courses beyond the freshman courses, excluding technical and creative writing, (2) writing in courses which are not themselves writing courses, particularly in the liberal arts and sciences, and (3) work in theory, research or pedagogy which is advanced or progressive and will shed light on the field as a whole whil… more
Date: 1990
Creator: Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition (U.S.)
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Journal of Advanced Composition, Volume 4, 1983

Description: The Journal of Advanced Composition contains a collection of papers regarding writing and rhetoric: "The JAC is a forum for theory, research and pedagogy regarding (1) those writing courses beyond the freshman courses, excluding technical and creative writing, (2) writing in courses which are not themselves writing courses, particularly in the liberal arts and sciences, and (3) work in theory, research or pedagogy which is advanced or progressive and will shed light on the field as a whole whil… more
Date: 1987
Creator: Lally, Tim D. P.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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