Technical Reports and Grant Applications

Course description

The focus of this course will be to provide students with the skills to make technical repots focused, clear, and objective. The elements of the course will include identification of the audience, the goal of the report, the flow of information, the selection of vocabulary, the use of plain language, and organization of supporting technical data. The course will improve the ability of students to communicate technical information with precision including findings, analysis, and recommendation in a way that it will capture the audience understanding. The lectures will also emphasis on making proper references to the source of information or data in the report. The course will also include examples about grants application. The grants are dynamics; however, they often require supporting technical data. Preparation of grants application will require skills to make proper assumptions if needed and collect accurate information as well as provide financial data in many cases. This process will be demonstrated by using real life examples for practice.

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