Case studies of technical report writing development among student engineers

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LAb experiments simply require students to fill in the blanks. Writers simply record and report what happened-they don't have to argue for a particular interpretation. One student states "you're simply regurgitating what you've been taught, basically" (89). A chemical engineering prof states that tech report is found in 75-90% of industrail applications and is most common form of writing that they will be asked to produce (93). It is not entirely clear what a "technical report" encompasses. However, the format that the Chem Eng prof provides from an "analysis of alternatives" technical report follows the IMRaD structure even though the headings do not exactly correspond to IMRaD headings. (98-100). This is actually a problem/solution type paper but it still contains all of the IMRaD elements in the correct order. MY note: Engineering students need to be able to recognize the IMRaD structure and its variants!!!! Relationship between technical data and text-especially the solution-is key to

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Sloat, E. A. (1994). Case studies of technical report writing development among student engineers. Curriculum Instruction.

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