<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Dear Michael,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">This is fantastic work. Thank you.</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4"><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif"><br></div><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Josie</font></font></span><div><u style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>></u><br><div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><font color="#cccccc"><b>JOSEPHINE WALWEMA</b></font><font color="#000000"> PhD.  </font></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Interdisciplinary Writing Program<br></font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:13pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Department of English | A101 Padelford Hall</font><br><font face="Lucida Fax, serif" style="font-weight:bold"></font></span></p></div><div><img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/uw-s3-cdn/wp-content/uploads/sites/98/2014/10/07213956/e-sig.gif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9677-9308" target="_blank">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9677-9308</a><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:medium"><br></span></div></div></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt"><br><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div><font size="1" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000">This is a public, university-owned email account and subject to an Open</font><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000"> Records request through the Freedom of Information Act at any time. Correspondence of a personal nature should be sent to: <a href="mailto:jwalwema@gmail.com" target="_blank">jwalwema@gmail.com</a></font></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:medium"><br></span></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 9:18 AM Alley, Michael P <<a href="mailto:mpa13@psu.edu">mpa13@psu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">





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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;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/" target="_blank">
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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://vimeo.com/352792252" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;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="gmail-m_-4194222759113752017Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:17e78914a814cff311"></span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://vimeo.com/352792252" target="_blank">Organizing an Engineering Report:</a> <a href="http://vimeo.com/352792252" target="_blank">vimeo.com/352792252</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;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:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">At present, we have developed a
<b><a href="http://www.writing.engr.psu.edu/" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Best wishes,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Michael Alley<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt">Michael Alley<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt">Teaching Professor, Engineering Communication<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt">Pennsylvania State University<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt">University Park, PA 16802<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt">1-814-867-0251<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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