Category: Lectures

I’m posting this week’s short lecture early to remind everyone about the due dates and the grade distribution in the class.

The deadline for all work in the class is by midnight on Tuesday, Dec. 21.

There is no Weekly Writing Assignment this week. Focus on completing all projects and assignments in our class.

Also, the Student Evaluation of Teaching survey deadline has been extended to Dec. 17, so please complete those if you haven’t already done so. For those who have completed it, thank you!

Good luck with finishing up the semester!

Assigned Reading and Viewing

• Oral Presentations
• Life After Death by Powerpoint

Useful Resources

• Recording a video lecture of yourself with Zoom and PowerPoint slidedeck
• Finding and Locating Local Zoom Recordings
• Uploading Videos on YouTube

• David McMurrey’s Online Technical Writing Textbook > Report Design
• Sample Report to Model
• Demo Google Doc with Table of Contents (from lecture)
• Purdue OWL APA In-Text Citations (see links for References on the left of page)

Due to the Thanksgiving Holiday, I am posting this week’s lecture and Weekly Writing Assignment early.

N.B. Prof. Ellis has cancelled this week’s Wednesday office hours. Send him an email at jellis@citytech.cuny.edu with any questions or your availability to discuss things face-to-face via Google Hangouts.

For the Research Report, make use of the Library’s ebook and journal article database holdings to find vetted and accurate information. Watch this week’s lecture to see how to use the library’s catalog and database search features.

Use the Purdue OWL APA Guide to help with formatting in-text citations for quotes and bibliographic references at the end of your research report document.

After watching this week’s lecture, you should complete the Weekly Writing Assignment in the post below.

Next, you can tackle this week’s homework, which is to study these examples of technical reports (especially, the table of contents of each) and write a draft outline for your technical report project in your “ENG1133 Technical Report” Google Doc. Think about what are the big ideas that you should discuss that introduces someone to your technical report’s topic. Put another way, what are the technical aspects (e.g., background, history, process, how it’s made, how it works, what is its cost and/or market)?

Then, write an email to jellis at citytech.cuny.edu asking for feedback on your outline, which you will want to copy-and-paste into the email. I’ll reply with feedback on your outline so that you have a good plan for beginning your vetted source research after next week’s lecture.

After watching this week’s lecture and completing peer review (there is still time to get this done), you may upload your final Job Application Portfolio deliverables on Dropbox using this link. The first project’s deliverables are due by the end of day on Wednesday, Oct. 20.