Technical Writing Ups & Downs
How do you write your best reports? The hardest part for me is getting started. Back when I was a humanities student I had a post-it note system of organization. Rather than starting with a written...
View ArticleRepost: Visual Presentations – They Aren’t Papers
If you read this blog regularly, you probably know that I am anything but succinct. It may surprise you to know that in my technical writing and presentations, I go too far the other way in many cases:...
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One of the skills that engineers are required to have is critical thinking and the ability to quickly assess and analyze a situation. [Good] Engineers are often brought in to situations because they...
View Article(mis)communicating your work
If you read my personal blog, you know that I’m on travel for a conference this week. This conference has been much different than the ones I’ve attended before. It was a lot smaller and easier to...
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