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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear Technical Writing Instructors—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Over the past three years, we have been interviewing engineering students and faculty at Penn State to learn their perspectives on the biggest writing problems and misconceptions
that engineering students have. From these interviews, we have crafted <a href="http://www.writing.engr.psu.edu/">
terse films</a> (less than 7 minutes) that address the problems and dispel the misconceptions. Given below is our film for the organization of engineering reports.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://vimeo.com/352792252"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="371" height="211" style="width:3.868in;height:2.1944in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D80DF4.A2501C10"></span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://vimeo.com/352792252">Organizing an Engineering Report:</a> vimeo.com/352792252<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Although you likely have a strong segment on teaching the organization of reports, this film might interest you because it looks at the topic from the perspectives of engineering
students and faculty. Learning those perspectives has certainly affected the way that I now teach engineering reports.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">At present, we have developed a
<b><a href="http://www.writing.engr.psu.edu/">collection of films</a></b> (www.writing.engr.psu/) that incorporate these interview findings into different aspects of engineering writing. This collection, along with
<b><a href="http://www.writing.engr.psu.edu/speaking.html">our collection of films about presenting</a>
</b>(www.writing.engr.psu/speaking.html), received more than 100,000 film views in 2021. This year, we are incorporating interview findings from professional engineers into revisions of the films. Please know that you are more than welcome to incorporate these
films (and Kahoots) into your teaching and to assign them to your students.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Michael Alley<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">_______________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Michael Alley<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Teaching Professor, Engineering Communication<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Pennsylvania State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">201 Hammond Bldg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">University Park, PA 16802<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">1-814-867-0251<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.assertion-evidence.com/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#0563C1">http://www.assertion-evidence.com/</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.craftofscientificwriting.com/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#0563C1">http://www.craftofscientificwriting.com/</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">
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