Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Lecture 02
Lecture 02
Writing
Dr. Imran Omer
Lecture 02
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Audience
Technical
Readers
Managerial General
Readers Readers
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Purpose
Information
Mechanism Instruction
Explanation Description
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Examples
Instruction
E-mails Description
Technical
Report
Press Résumé
Releases
Memorandum
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Technical Report Writing
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Universal Characteristics
Active Voice
Third Person
Proper Citation
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Report Structure: Title Page
Submission
Date
Title
To From
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Report Structure: Abstract
No
Qualitative
abbreviations
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Report Structure: Table of Contents
Section
Subsection Appendices
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Report Structure: Introduction
Problem
Description
Brevity Objectives
Most
Interesting Methods
Results 10
Report Structure: Design and
Procedure
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Report Structure: Results and
Discussions
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Report Structure: Conclusion
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Report Structure: Works Cited and
Appendix
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Report Structure: Nature of Readers
Technical
•Figures
Readers
Managerial
•Executive Summary
Readers
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Report Structure: Language
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Deductive vs. Inductive Report
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Deductive vs. Inductive Report
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Deductive vs. Inductive Report
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Deductive vs. Inductive Report
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Deductive vs. Inductive Report
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Deductive vs. Inductive Report
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Deductive vs. Inductive Report
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Deductive vs. Inductive Report
Specific General
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Deductive vs. Inductive Report
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Deductive vs. Inductive Report
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Deductive vs. Inductive Report
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Deductive vs. Inductive Report
General Specific
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Deductive vs. Inductive Report
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Conclusions
Technical communication
Nature of the audience
Structure of a report
Deductive vs. Inductive report
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