COURSE FORMAT                                                                                                                          FALL 2020

Course Title:  Technical & Report Writing

Course Code: ENGL - 302

Credit Hours: 03

Instructor: Muhammad Muneeb Ali

Email: [email protected]

Course Objective

At the end of the course the students will be able to effectively plan and structure technical reports and to recognize the various stages in writing a technical report.

Course Content:

1. Writing for Readers: Academic, Public, and Work Communities; Analyzing Electron-ic Communities; c. Myths and Realities about Writing.
2. Discovering and Planning: Discovering Topics; Generating Ideas; Organizing Infor-mation; Planning in Digital Environments.
3. Purpose, Thesis, and Audience: Identifying Your Focus and Purpose; Creating a The-sis; Understanding Your Readers.
4. Drafting: Moving from Planning to Drafting, Drafting Collaboratively, Drafting in Digital Environments.
5. Revising, Editing, and Proofreading: Making Major Revisions; Making Minor Revi-sions; Revising Collaboratively; Revising in Digital Environments; Editing; Editing Collaboratively; Proofreading.
6. Paragraphs: Unfocused Paragraphs; Revising for Focus; Incoherent Paragraphs; Re-vising for Coherence; Poorly Developed Paragraphs; Revising for Development; Us-ing Special-Purpose Paragraphs.
7. Clear and Emphatic Sentences: Unclear Sentences; Revising for Clear Sentences; Re-vising for Variety and Emphasis.
8. Reasoning Critically: Recognizing Critical Reasoning, Building a Chain of Reasoning, Representing Your Reasoning.
9. Reading Critically: Reading to Understand; Reading to Respond and Evaluate; Using Journals to Turn Reading into Writing.
10. Arguing Persuasively: Recognizing an Issue, Developing Your Stance, Creating an Argumentative Thesis, Developing Reasons and Evidence, Acknowledging Other Perspectives, Arguing Logically, Writing a Position Paper.
11. Designing Documents: Goals of Document Design, Format Choice, Layout, Type Choice, Visuals, Sample Documents. Creating a Visual Argument: Presenting an Is-sue, Providing Evidence.
12. Writing in Online Communities: Online Expectations, E-mail Conventions, Online Communities, Web Pages, Avoiding Plagiarism and Behaving Ethically Online.
13. Speaking Effectively: Oral Presentations, Preparing an Oral Presentation, Managing Speech Anxiety, Fielding Questions.
14. Academic Writing: Social and Natural Sciences: Goals of Writing in the Social and Natural Sciences, Audiences in the Social and Natural Sciences, Writing Tasks in the Social and Natural Sciences, Types of Writing in the Social and Natural Sciences,
15. Abstract, Informative Report, Lab Report, Research Report,
16. Public Writing: Goals of Public Writing, Public Audiences, Public Writing Tasks, Types of Public Writing, Public Flyer, Letter to the Editor, Oral Presentation.
17. Researching and Writing: Beginning Your Research, Types of Research Writing, Developing a Research Question, Developing a Preliminary Thesis, Creating a Re-search File and a Timeline, Reading and Notetaking, Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Synthesizing. 

Teaching Methodology:
Lecturing, Written Assignments, Report Writing, Presentations

Course Assessment:
Sessional Exam, Home Assignments, Quizzes, Presentations, Final Exam

Reference Materials:

1. Writer's Companion – The Longman by Chris M. Anson, Robert A. Schwegler and Marcia F. Muth, Pearson Longman, 4th Edition (2007) . ISBN10: 0-20556-252-3 
2. Technical English: Writing, Reading, and Speaking by Pickett and Laster. 8th Edition.
3. The Technical Writer‘s Companion byAlred, Gerald, Charles T. Brusaw and Walter E. Oliu, 3rd Edition. ISBN 0-312-25978-6.