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Writing a Technical Report for Electronic and Electrical Engineers

Has a mixture of factual information (conventions on how a report should be structured) and motivational information on improving writing and communication skills

A guide to writing formal technical reports

A guide to writing formal technical reports for IT and CS students

Social Networking Technologies: Project Launch

Students taking the 20 credit version of the course (COMP6052) will work in groups of 6 to develop and design a new social networking tool/application/website. The teams will work on their design throughout the semester, and keep a design and development blog that will act as a digital portfolio of their work. At the end of the semester they will also be asked to submit an individual reflective summary that will outline their teams objectives and progress, their part in its progress, and a critical analysis of whether or not they were successful. At the end of the course teams will be asked to pitch their ideas to an interdisciplinary Dragon's Den style panel who will expect them to not only have created something that is technical viable, but will also want to see other economic, social, legal and ethical factors taken into consideration. In this presentation we explain the structure of the group project, what is expected in the blog, and explore some potential ideas to help students understand the scope of the work required. The outcome of the group project does not have to be a fully working piece of software, instead we are looking for a well developed idea that contains enough detail to be convincing to the panel.

Technical Report Background Reading Guidance and Links

Handout which contains a set of links to a variety of background resources associated with the topics for a technical report coursework. Resources are clustered into three overview areas, but contain links which be used to address each of the six questions scenarios.

Writing Technical Reports and Papers

A brief coverage of the structure of a paper/report and some hints on writing and avoiding plagiarism

Technical reports

Collection of resources for COMP 1205