This paper is an attempt to give some guidelines on how to write a good technical paper and to make good presentations, important skills for a successful career in research and teaching.

INTRODUCTION Cases of plagiarism among professional writers have gained increasing media attention in recent years. As a result, many students of professional writing fear that they may be “stealing,” or committing intellectual “theft,” whenever they make use of any existing material in their writing. They have been warned against such uses by several sources. Instructors and university adminis...

This document provides you with some tips and some resources to help you write a technical research paper, such as you might write for your required capstone project paper. First, congratulations are in order– you are embarking on an activity that is going to change the way you think and add to the overall body of human knowledge. The skill of gathering information, deciding what is important, ...

Technical texts often introduce scientific principles by deriving the principle prior to stating the principle itself. This "proof-first" organization violates writing guidelines suggested by current text learning theories. The current research compared the effects on comprehension of this type of structure with its logical alternative, a "principle-first" structure. Results indicate that reade...

Narratives have been used in the past to enhance technical documents such as research proposals by implementing a single-user writing tool called CANS (Computer-Aided Narrative Support). This study has now been extended to collaborative writing (CW); another area that can greatly benefit from a narrativebased writing tool. Before implementing such an asynchronous, multi-user system, however, it...

ion Finding and articulating patterns, structures, and relationships in large amounts of information that is typically amassed but either unstructured or structured in ways that limit the use of the information (p. 260) System Thinking Finding and articulating patterns, structures, and relationships across specific problems, projects, and task domains; moving from tactical to strategic thinking...

In Japanese, there are a large number of notational variants of words. This is because Japanese words are written in three kinds of characters: kanji (Chinese) characters, hiragara letters, and katakana letters. Japanese students study basic rules of Japanese writing in school for many years. However, it is difficult to learn which variant is suitable for a certain context in official, business...