English 060: Technical Report Writing

Course Description

Technical Report Writing is a required course for students enrolled in the drafting and electronics programs at Hawai'i Community College. The course provides students with practice in analyzing and organizing technical data. Students structure factual materials by writing in a clear and concise manner using technical terms. The emphasis is on application and effective communication for the "future" workplaces of drafting and electronics students.  Students in other fields of interest are welcome to take the course.  Activities can be adapted to incorporate almost any type of major.

Textbook and Materials

Learning Workplace Writing by Judith R. Rice
Prentice Hall Career and Technology
Prentice Hall Inc. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632
copyright: 1994
ISBN: 0-13-337437-8 Fall 1995

Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources.by Andrew Harnack and Eugene Kleppinger
St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010
copyright: 1998
ISBN: 0-312-17904-9

one 3 1/2 in. high density diskette (IBM formatted)

remote access to Internet from home or other source (required only for students completing course via distance education option)

Instructional hardware/software available in the computer classroom and/or HawCC Learning Center:

• IBM computers (486s and faster)
• Microsoft Office 97 with Word, Power Point, and Excel
• Internet access through Netscape Navigator 4.0 or Internet Explorer 3.0
• Front Page Editor (html wysiwyg)
• Netscape Navigator Composer  and Netscape Gold (html editors)
• WebCT
• printers