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This document provides information about a technical and business writing course. The course aims to teach students how to gather and analyze information, organize their findings, and write different types of reports. Students will learn about technical exposition, document design, plagiarism, and creating proposals, progress reports, manuals, and research papers. The course will be taught through lectures, assignments, presentations, and report writing. Students will be assessed through exams, assignments, quizzes, and a final report.

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Technical Writing PDF

This document provides information about a technical and business writing course. The course aims to teach students how to gather and analyze information, organize their findings, and write different types of reports. Students will learn about technical exposition, document design, plagiarism, and creating proposals, progress reports, manuals, and research papers. The course will be taught through lectures, assignments, presentations, and report writing. Students will be assessed through exams, assignments, quizzes, and a final report.

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Technical & Business Writing

Credit Hours: 3 (3,0) Prerequisites:


Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs):
At the end of the course the students will be able to: Domain BT Level*

* BT= Bloom’s Taxonomy, C=Cognitive domain, P=Psychomotor domain, A=


Affective domain

Course Content:
Overview of technical reporting, use of library and information gathering, administering
questionnaires, reviewing the gathered information; Technical exposition; topical
arrangement, exemplification, definition, classification and division, casual analysis,
effective exposition, technical narration, description and argumentation, persuasive
strategy, Organizing information and generation solution: brainstorming, organizing
material, construction of the formal outline, outlining conventions, electronic
communication, generation solutions. Polishing style: paragraphs, listening sentence
structure, clarity, length and order, pomposity, empty words, pompous vocabulary,
document design: document structure, preamble, summaries, abstracts, table of contents,
footnotes, glossaries, cross-referencing, plagiarism, citation and bibliography, glossaries,
index, appendices, typesetting systems, creating the professional report; elements,
mechanical elements and graphical elements. Reports: Proposals, progress reports,
Leaflets, brochures, handbooks, magazines articles, research papers, feasibility reports,
project reports, technical research reports, manuals and documentation, thesis. Electronic
documents, Linear verses hierarchical structure documents.
Teaching Methodology:
Lecturing, Written Assignments, Presentation, Report Writing, Final Exam
Course Assessment:
Sessional Exam, Home Assignments, Quizzes, Report Writing, Presentation, Final Exam
Reference Materials:
1. Technical Report Writing, by Pauley and Riordan, Houghton Mifflin Company, 8th
Edition.
2. Effective Technical Communication by Ashraf Rizvi, Tata McGraw-Hill.

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