Our On-line Handbook is divided into four main sections: Types/Parts of Reports, Accurate Documentation, Oral Communication, and The Writing Process. Where necessary, we provide a short description of the pages below.

• Types/Parts of Reports: We cover a range of the most important sorts of report written in Engineering courses.  The short report document can serve as an introduction to the whole set.
  • Abstracts
  • Proposals
  • Short Reports(general)
  • Case Studies
  • Laboratory Reports
  • Outlines
  • Memos
  • Progress Reports
  • Interim Reports
  • Writing for Electronic Media

• Accurate Documentation: We have a range of material here aimed to ensure that you can use your references properly in the two most common reference systems in Engineering:
  
  • How to use IEEE Style Documentation 
  • How to use Author-Date Style Documentation
  • EWC Bibliography Builder This popular tool will actually format bibliography entries for you. It saves you needing to learn where to put the commas and all that tedious detail. 
  • Plagiarism Defines plagiarism and discusses how to avoid it.

• Oral Communication:
  • Preparing Your Talk
  • Presenting Your Talk
  • Supporting Your Talk with Visuals
  • Summary
    
    
• The Writing Process:
  • Strategic Writing
    • Planning Your Document
    • Developing Your Ideas
  • Writing and Using Outlines
    • How to Write an Outline
    • How to Use Your Outline(when writing a formal report)
  • Rhetorical Patterns All writing is composed of combinations of these rhetorical patterns. They are simple, and understanding them can often help you understand what assignments require.
  • Writing Tips One of the writing instructors assembled this introduction to common mistakes that have burned your peers in the past.
     

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