Basic Technical Writing

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Basic Technical Writing ????????
Fu Jen Catholic University Dept. of
CSIE ???(Dr.Joseph Arul)
Graduate course
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Syllabus for the course Basic Technical
Writing ???????? Feb 2009
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Syllabus Basic Technical Writing Course
????(SF336) Feb. 2009 Fu Jen Catholic
University, Taiwan. Dept. of Comp. Science and
Info. Engr. ______________________________________
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Class Lecture Meeting Times Tuesdays 910AM
Noon ?????? Instructor Dr. Joseph Arul (???
) Office Hours Email arul_at_csie.fju.edu.tw
Wednesdays 1.00PM to
300PM Office Room 615
????? 615 Phone [phone]
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arul_at_csie.fju.edu.tw Homepage http//www.csie.fj
u.edu.tw/arul
(Class lectures, homework assignments and data
needed for the exercises in class will be on this
web page. Kindly refer to this page regularly for
all the announcements regarding this course.)
Slides are from the Text book. All the materials
are taken from the text Book. However, for
further examples and for your practice, refer to
the web page. Lot of materials are available on
the web page.
Spend at least 3 to six hours on your own every
week on the Topics that we cover, you can
certainly improve and also receive good grade.
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Course Objectives

• The college course today demands not only that
  students write clearly and accurately but also
  that they write effectively about what they have
  read. In order to write effectively, you need to
  write clearly and express exactly in English.
  This course will help you to write clearly.
• Every student who plans to work in business and
  industry must master the art of technical
  writing. This course will present you some
  guidelines to improve your skills in Technical
  Writing.
• The English of an experimental research report is
  highly conventionalized, a fact that represents a
  great advantage for non-native speakers as well
  as for their language instructors. The
  conventions are fairly consistent across a wide
  variety of scientific disciplines. This course
  will help students to see what those choices are
  and to select the most appropriate that is,
  most conventional option.

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Text Book The Writers Response A reading based
approach to writing Fourth Edition By Stephen
McDonald and William Salomone Optional Text 1.
2. 3. 4.
Grading The final grade will be composed of the
following weights. If you receive a failing grade
in the Mid-term Exam, No make-up Mid-term Exam
will be given to those who fail.
You must receive at least 70 in order to pass
the course. Fourth Year students need 60
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Exams Quizzes and exams will cover lectures,
textbook materials and homeworks. There may be
other relevant materials related to the topics
will be also covered in addition to the textbook
materials. Documented crisis or one week's prior
notice required for consideration of exam or
Quizzes make-up.
Homeworks Few homeworks will be assigned
throughout the term. Homeworks are due at the
start of class on the due date. Sorry, no late
homeworks will ordinarily be accepted. One day
and upto one week late assignments are penalized
20 from the total score. After one week, the
percent increases by 10 for every week.
Quizzes Short quizzes will be given at any time
covering the lecture and the reading materials.
This is to motivate you to keep up on the
reading. This will be announced at least one week
prior to the date in the class. If you are absent
from the class, it is your duty to find out from
other classmates.
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Turn in Policy Turn in all work to the
instructor, preferably before class begins. Make
sure that the work is done on your own without
discussing with other classmates. Refer to the
Academic Honesty below. Absence and Participation
Policy Class attendance and effective,
constructive participation is important to your
performance in the course and makes up a portion
of the grade. If you cannot make it to class on
the date something is due, please make
arrangements to have someone else bring your
assignment to me before or at the start of class.
Also note the exam absence policy mentioned
earlier. Don't wait for the last day to cover up
all the materials. It will be too hard. Academic
Honesty Follow the University policy on academic
honesty. The instructor's academic honesty policy
is very strict instances of academic dishonesty
will be penalized, ordinarily by at least failure
on the assignment and likely failure in the
course (in addition to any University penalties).
Unless otherwise stated, all work is to be
individual work. Violations of the individual
work policy will be regarded as instances of
academic dishonesty. Beware of copying materials
from the Internet. (Don't forget to cite the
material)
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Course Outline and the topics that will be
covered during this semester. Ch12 Consistency
in Verb Tense and Verb Voice. Ch13 Subject verb
Agreement. Ch14 Pronoun Agreement and
Reference Ch15 Pronoun case Ch10 Sentence
Fragments. Ch11 Fused Sentences and Comma
splices and Run-on. Ch16 Misplaced and Dangling
Modifiers. Ch17 Comma Usage Ch18 Semicolon and
colons Ch 19 The Apostrophes. Ch20 Quotation
Marks. Ch21 Titles, Capitalization, and
Numbers. Ch22 Clear and Concise Sentences.
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End of the syllabus Any Questions?