Week 2 Lecture Notes

Outline

Student Introductions

Lecture on Technical Writing/Technical Communication

Introduce Individual Projects with a focus on the first: Article Summary

Homework: Weekly Memo (summarize this week’s lecture in a printed, one-page memo), and Draft of Article Summary (find a relevant article through the library’s databases, and write and print a two-page memo following the model linked below–summarize the article in your own words, incorporate a single quote cited in IEEE style, and include a reference entry in IEEE format at the end of your memo).

Resources

Sample Article Summary Memo

Library.citytech.cuny.edu > IEEExplor, ScienceDirect, Academic Search Complete, OneFile, etc.