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Effective Strategies To Motivate Engineering Students To Develop Their Technical Writing Skills
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Peck, Ann Nancy W. Nydahl, John E. Keeney, Colin K. |
| Copyright Year | 1999 |
| Abstract | Many engineering students have a real aversion to writing-intensive assignments. This paper discusses several curriculum changes incorporated in a mechanical engineering program to demonstrate just how vital communication skills are in an engineering environment and to improve those skills. The primary motivational technique is the use of student interviews with practicing engineers, allowing students to personally “discover” this real world phenomena by interacting with professionals in their field and gaining first-hand understanding of the importance of good technical writing skills. To help give a sophomore-level technical writing course immediate relevance, it is linked to a class/laboratory that was reformulated to include a large writing component. The laboratory includes team written prelabs, draft reports that are peer reviewed, and final reports that use both a memo and formal report formats. The time management plan and grading procedure that are used to effectively compact the technical material plus all the above writing components into a one-hour class/laboratory are discussed. An assessment of this interdisciplinary venue is also given. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://peer.asee.org/effective-strategies-to-motivate-engineering-students-to-develop-their-technical-writing-skills.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
