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Technical Writing ENGL 415/615
Dan Riordan, Instructor
Spring 2002

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Student Sample Documents Below are documents that students in previous semesters submitted in order to fulfill the course assignments.

Instruction Examples/IMRD Examples/Portfolio 1 Examples/Portfolio 2 Examples/Feasibility Report Examples

Instruction Examples

Sending HTML Files using Eudora 3.0.1 (IBM computers) by Julie Devriend
Finding What You Want With Hot Bot by Brandon McCartney
How To Transfer a Picture From the Web To Your Web Page by Eric Lien
How To Save a Screencapture to Your Hard Drive Using MS Paint by Nate Smith
How To Save a Picture Found on the Internet To Your Disk by Pete Schwarzkopf
Using the MS DOS Prompt To FTP Documents and Images by Shannon Wenzel
Instructions on Putting an Internet Picture on a Front Page Document by Beth Shustrom

Need more help? Read the text, Riordan and Pauley, Technical Report Writing Today, Chapter 11, "Set of Instructions," pp. 259-286.

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IMRD Examples

Note: in the following examples most of the escape links do not work. Please use the back button to return to this page.

IMRD on Nutrition Education Plans by Jennifer Baldini
IMRD on Sending Files to a Webmaster by Julie Devriend
IMRD on Phoning Over the Internet by Brandon McCartney
IMRD on Using Hotbot by Bridget Bipes

Need more help? Read the text, Riordan and Pauley, Technical Report Writing Today, Chapter 12, "Memorandums and Informal Reports," pp. 295-298, 303-315.

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Portfolio 1 Examples

How to Add Tables and Insert Text by Josh Alters
Report on Adding Tables and Inserting Text by Josh Alters
Report on Setting Up Hit-Counters by Josh Alters
Adding a Page to a Web Page in Front Page by Chad Seichter
Changing Picure Edges in PhotoDraw by Chad Seichter
How To Add a Picture to a Web Page in Front Page by Chad Seichter
Instructions on Creating a New Page and Hyperlink by Beth Shustrom
Creating a New Page and Hyperlink by Beth Shustrom

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Portfolio 2 Examples

How to Embed Sound into Your Website by Josh Alters
Report on Embedding Sound by Josh Alters
Making a Web Page with Frames by Chad Seichter
How to Add Frames to Your Report by Chad Seichter
Troubleshooting Hyperlink Problems by Julie McNallan
How to Troubleshoot Hyperlink Problems by Julie McNallan
Problems with Links by Jennifer Weigel
How to Fix Link Addresses by Jennifer Weigel

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Feasibility Report Examples

Sample Complete Feasibility Report
IMRD that is the basis for one section of the Feasibility Report
Proposal that is the basis for a Feasibility Report

Need more help? Read the text, Riordan and Pauley, Technical Report Writing Today, Chapter 15, "Recommendation and Feasibility Reports" (see more models on pp. 410-412; work through the planning worksheet on p. 398). For abstracts see Chapter 6, "Summarizing"; for elements in a formal report see Chapter 14, "Formal Reports"; for help with visual aids see Chapter 8 "Usiing Visual Aids."

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