North Lake College Different Types of Technical Reports Discussion
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DR7: Different Types of Technical Reports
Jake Wobbrok’s paper Catchy Titles Are Good: But Avoid Being Cute gives great advice for writing an academic research paper, particularly for the Human Computer Interaction field where he does most of his research.
What advice from Wobbrock’s paper would you change for writing technical reports in a business and professional setting? Choose ONE of the sections in Wobbrock’s paper (Abstract, Introduction, Related Work, etc.) and describe how the advice for this section (and maybe its title or even existence) would be different for a technical report written in a business and professional setting. (Keep your answers short. You do not need to address every piece of advice in the section that you choose.)
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DR8: Graphics in Your Technical Report
After reading the first three pages from Technical Communication Chapter 12: Creating Graphics, you might be thinking about including a graphic in your technical report.
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- What information might a graphic convey in your technical report?
- What type of graphic might you include and why would you use that type?
(Note: Your technical report does not need to include a graphic, but at least explore the possibility here.)
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DR9: Technical Reports Only for STEM?
As implied by NISOs Scientific and Technical Reports instructional report, technical reports seem to ONLY be used for STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) to investigate number-based problems. But can they be used in other fields, like business, education, or the social sciences (psychology, government)? Explain.
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Heidi Falcon
DR 7-9
DR7:
The Design of Your Widget section is explained well in my opinion. For a technical report however I feel changing the title to Expected Result or something of the sort would make more sense since it would be explaining the goal you are trying to achieve.
DR8:
* What information might a graphic convey in your technical report?
A graphic could convey statistical information such as percentages to further support a claim being made in the technical report.
* What type of graphic might you include and why would you use that type?
For this you could show a pie chart if the information was only taken in one specific year. If multiple years are shown, it could be a table with different columns to better depict a pattern.
DR9:
I feel that as a student in this class, it would be common sense at this point to say that technical reports could very easily be used for educational purposes. Classes like this and any other technical writing based class that fall under an English minor like mine often require a technical report to be written to test how well weve retained instruction on how to write one.
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