Technical Writing
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“A very experienced engineer I worked with towards the beginning of my career once told me, the output of engineering is documentation,” says Aaron Moncur, host of the podcast Being an Engineer, in a conversation with Pam Hurley, PhD, founder of Hurley Write. He’s right: we have long argued that the document is the deliverable of your work. Yet most writing courses—especially academic ones—fail to adequately prepare students for the real-world applications they’re likely to face. The central problem is that most professional writing courses over-emphasize grammar and rhetoric and under-emphasize critical thinking and problem-solving. Consider an engineer documen…
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A corrective action report is a technical document that details an issue regarding a product and the steps required to correct the complaint. Included in the report are the customer giving the complaint, the customer representative reporting the complaint and the team handling the complaint. The team handling the complaint usually (but not always) includes management, engineering, quality assurance, and other teams as needed. An investigation is performed by the engineering team (with assistance from other teams as needed) to determine the issue (or root cause) and note the action taken to resolve the customer issue. These reports are then signed by all managers and k…
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Check out our Podcast with Pam Hurley. Technical Writing, Presentations & Communications. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pipelinedesign_pam-hurley-technical-writing-presentations-activity-7126217673448792064-LygT?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
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