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Technical Report Writing Course Guide

PTP327 is a course focused on technical report writing, teaching students the structure and purpose of various report sections. The course aims to enhance skills in information collection, drafting, and professional writing. By the end, students will be able to effectively illustrate tables, figures, and diagrams while selecting appropriate titles for their reports.

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Technical Report Writing Course Guide

PTP327 is a course focused on technical report writing, teaching students the structure and purpose of various report sections. The course aims to enhance skills in information collection, drafting, and professional writing. By the end, students will be able to effectively illustrate tables, figures, and diagrams while selecting appropriate titles for their reports.

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PTP327 Technical Report Writing-1

1- Course description:

A technical report is a formal report designed to convey technical information in a clear and
easily accessible format. It is divided into sections which allow different readers to access
different levels of information. This course explains the commonly accepted format for a
technical report; explains the purposes of the individual sections; and gives hints on how to go
about drafting and refining a report in order to produce an accurate, professional document.
A technical report should contain title page, summary, contents, introduction, the sections which
make up the body of the report, conclusions, references, bibliography, acknowledgements and
appendices. In this course, students will study a five-step writing process. These steps
are planning (prewriting), drafting, revising, editing, and publishing.

2- Overall aims of the course:

The Main Goals of this course are:


• To understand how to collect your information.
• To understand how to plan your draft.
• To understand how to write a technical report professionally.
• To be able to write a technical report.
• To improve the writing skills periodically.

3- Intended learning outcomes of course (ILOs):

a- Knowledge and understanding:

By the end of this course the student should be able to:

• Demonstrate tables correctly in the technical paragraph.


• Illustrate figures exactly in the writing process.
• Describe diagrams perfectly in the technical report.

b- Intellectual skills:

By the end of this course the student should be able to:

• Choose the best sentences to explain any topic.


• Compare among different titles to select the exact title for your report.

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