· Analysis
· Progress reports
· Incident reports
· Forecast
· Plans
· Proposals
· Recommendation
· Action reviews
· Work description
· Etc.
In my Engineering class, I am asked to write a memo for every checkpoint I achieve, the memo is 10 pages long and it should includes pictures, graphs, and tables. Moreover, there are some requirements for the paper. For instance, you can only use third person phrases, and the language should be easy for the reader so that they can understand what is going on. These writings are called technical writings. According to Atul Mathur they involve 2 key competencies. The first one is the ability to understand technical language; the second is being able to express that knowledge in a clear, concise, and coherent manner.
Resources:
https://www.asme.org/career-education/articles/business-writing/how-engineers-can-improve-technical-writing.
This is a really interesting post, I had no clue how writing was integrated with engineering. I like how you also talked about your experience with writing in your engineering classes, cause I would probably never be in an engineering class, so I wouldn't know about writing in science and math based classes!
ReplyDeleteThere are some elective classes that teaches student how to write as an engineer. so if you like to learn such thing you can always have that class
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