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Technical Writing

33 calificaciones

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Technical Writing

33 calificaciones

Curso 4 de 5 en Specialization English for Research Publication Purposes

The course develops technical writing skills necessary to communicate information gained through a process of technical or experimental work. The course highlights the factors that determine the degree of technicality of the language and concepts involved. You will learn how to write different technical reports, e.g., laboratory reports, research reports, design and feasibility reports, progress reports, consulting reports, etc. The course also approaches several language, structure, style, and content issues that you can encounter while reporting the results of your research.

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Module III: Researching Your Subject

This module will help you develop an enhanced understanding of such types of technical documentation as feasibility and recommendation reports, instructions as well as laboratory research. The module covers issues related to various types of academic and workplace research. The focus is on acquiring the best available information – the most accurate, most unbiased, most comprehensive, and most current.

Focus on Process3:42

Laboratory Report4:07

Feasibility, recommendation, and evaluation reports6:58

Conoce a los instructores

Elena Bazanova
Director of the Language Training and Testing Center
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Virtually anyone working in engineering and the sciences

will be tasked in one fashion or another with producing a laboratory report.

This document presents information that relates to the controlled testing of

a hypothesis, theory, or device using test equipment and

a specified series of steps employed to perform the test, or the procedure.

The emphasis in the laboratory report is on documenting the design and

conduct of the test.

How the variables were controlled and what the resulting data showed.

In this purest form, a laboratory report is a research-oriented document,

meaning that it starts with a hypothesis or

theory that needs to be applied and tested under highly controlled conditions.

For example, suppose you are an astronauts engineer

hypothesizing that your new wind design could be used to generate

high lift at hypersonic speeds with increased flight stability.

To test that hypothesis in a laboratory you would need an apparatus.

In this case a hypersonic wind tunnel and the model of your wind design.

You would also need a procedure for

using that wind tunnel to test your wind design model.

You could then use the procedure to collect data from the wind tunnel test and

interpret the data to see whether your new wind design generated

higher lead with increased stability under hypersonic conditions.

Finally, you could assess whether their original hypothesis was supported and

if so probably recommend that more research be done.

This is an example of a laboratory report.

Introduction, start the introduction by briefly and

statically describing the purpose of the report.

Next, provide the reader with enough with enough information on the problem so

that he or she can understand what the report is about and

put the information that follows in the proper context.

Round out the introduction with a statement of the scope regarding what is

being tested and any significant limitations of these tests.

Specify limitations of your report.

That is what it will cover and what it will not cover.

For example, your report may be limited to technical performance of a device or

may not include analysis of costs or marketability.

In the background section you should provide the information necessary for

the reader to understand and appreciate the test report and

the findings that will follow.

This section should review any relevant theory and

past research that the reader needs to know.

Review significant prior research that has been done

on this topic to establish a baseline for your research.

In this section, describe the physical apparatus used in the test and

the processes or procedures for doing the testing.

The apparatus includes the device being tested and the equipment used to

do the testing, while the procedure would include the steps in the test.

Findings, in this section, present the data

that the tests yielded and provide an interpretation of this data.

Finally, provide your overall conclusions

related to the original purpose of your study.

And many other specific recommendations,

if possible that you believe warranted by the results.

Provide assessment and recommendations.

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