Technical Writing
TW
Certificate
Workshop 1 - Introduction
The workshop was about improving English writing skills, in particular for documents that are written for Companies rather than an academic environment. Topics included:
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Introduction to Technical Writing.
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Walk through the material (hand out) with the major topics of concern for academic engineers, comprising the most common grammar mistakes.
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Review of personal work (Technical reports, Project deliverables)
Lecturer: Audrey Debije Popson
Personal Contribution: Lecture Attendance, Review of personal and colleague's writing skills,
Obtained Results: Pinpoint of personal strengths and fall-backs in my personal style, I started applying some suggestions on the reports that followed.
Workshop 2 - Report Feedback in Teams
It was a feedback session with Farzad, regarding:
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Review of personally written reports
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Feedback from/to colleague (Farzad)
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Feedback from lecturer
Lecturer: Audrey Debije Popson
Personal Contribution: Report writing, Review of personal and colleague's writing skills,
Obtained Results: Pinpointed issues in writing style and way forward, evaluated overall writing quality.
Workshop 3 - Personal Feedback
It was a personal feedback session, regarding:
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Review of personally written reports
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Feedback from lecturer
Lecturer: Audrey Debije Popson
Personal Contribution: Report Writing, Review of personal and colleague's writing skills,
Obtained Results: Pinpointed issues in writing style and way forward, evaluated overall writing quality.
Workshop 4 - Group session
The workshop was focused on writing issues which were spread throughout the group. Topics included:
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Writing image captions
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Given before- New sentence structure
Lecturer: Audrey Debije Popson
Personal Contribution: Lecture Attendance
Obtained Results: Definition of how a images and captions contribute to the understanding of the text, improvement in the understanding of how to target the text to the audience
Workshop 5 - Group session + Feedback
The workshop was focused the following topics:
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Executive summaries
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Personal/Progress Reports
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Review & Feedback on a colleague's text
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Personal feedback from the lecturer
Lecturer: Audrey Debije Popson
Personal Contribution: Lecture Attendance, Text Review, and Feedback
Obtained Results: Clearer understanding of how to write Executive summaries, better understanding of the assets and pitfalls in my writing style