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WELCOME TO TECHNICAL WRITING FOR COMPUTER ENGINEERS.

This is a required course for UCSC CE and EE students.

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What would you like to know?

• Instructor: Gerald B. Moulds
• Office hours: Wednesday 12:15-1:15, The Hungry Slug Café, Porter (or by appointment)
• Office Location: Engineering-2, Room 237A
• Phone: (831) 588-4252
• e-mail: gmoulds@soe.ucsc.edu

• Teaching Assistant: Grant Thiltgen
• Office Hours: 2:00 – 4:00 Tuesdays, Baskin Engineering Room 308
• Email: thiltgen@soe.ucsc.edu

• Writing Tutor: Jo Chou
• Office Hours: Monday 2:00-4:30pm, Friday 5:00-7:30pm
• Location: Baskin #228 (IEEE Room)
• Email: gidget@ucsc.edu

• Class meetings
• Location: Porter 148
• Time: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 11:00am – 12:10pm

PROJECT INFORMATION:

• Article Database UI Tutorial
• Survey Article
• Poster Presentation – Remember: this will take place in the Baskin Engineering Whiteboards room.

• Assignments:

Assignment	Rough Draft Due	Final Due
1. Resume and Cover Letter	September 26	September 28
2. Algorithm Description	October 5	October 10
3. Article Database UI	October 21	October 24
4. Project Proposal Memo		November 7
5. Survey Article	November 2	November 9
6. Poster Presentations		November 14 or 16
7. Progress Report		November 21
8. Final Project	November 28	December 5
9. Oral Presentations		Throughout Quarter

• POSTER PRESENTATION ASSIGNMENTS (IN BASKIN ENGINEERING WHITEBOARDS ROOM):

• Monday, November 14
• Athanasiadis, Marides
• Chen, Yiping
• Cua, Jaclyn
• Demilew, Thewodros
• Diep, Kevin
• Elyassi, Ali
• Kelly-Sneed, Devin
• Lee, Carson
• Minolli, Matthew
• Moss, Stephan
• Pasetes, Rachel
• Pepper, Daniel
• Ruggiero, Michael
• Sinha, Urvashi
• Stahl, Max
• Treanor, Mike
• Wyman, Bryan
• Yancey, Ross
• Zapata, Luis
• Zuo, Feng

• Wednesday, November 16
• Alvarado, Oscar
• Carter, Eric
• Catalano, Abram
• Dean, George
• Hassani, Said
• Hendrix, James
• Hichborn, Kevin
• Keller, Mike
• Kim, Edward
• Mahbod, Aurash
• Matyas, Mark
• Muresan, Ioanna
• Nguyen, Thy
• Stearns, Sara
• Strader, Thomas
• Strater, Josh
• Tuner, Ryan
• Willy, Tristan
• Zuniga, Jorge

• Required texts
• The Elements of Style by Strunk and White.
• A Dictionary of Troublesome Words by Bill Bryson.
• Periodic handouts and web documents: to be announced.

• Please fill out the intake survey right away.

• Newsgroup:
• There is a newsgroup for the class: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CMPE185/
• You will need a Yahoo ID to sign up.

• Grades: Grades will be mostly (~80%) based on the total portfolio of work you turn in at the end of the class. This consists of five major writing projects (including your final project). Failure to turn in a major writing project will most likely result in a failing grade. To a lesser degree (~20%) your grade will be based on your oral presentation, poster project, various in-class writing assignments, and your participation in class and online discussions.

• Collaboration is good, and plagiarism is bad. Read more about it here.

ORAL PRESENTATION DATES:

Friday, September 30^th:

• Jimmy Hendrix

Monday, October 3^rd:

• Tristan Willy

Friday, October 7^th:

• Rachel Pasetes
• Ted Demilew
• Ryan Turner

Monday, October 10^th:

• Abram Catalano
• Kevin Hichborn

Wednesday, October 12^th

• Josh Strater

Friday, October 14^th

• Yiping Chen

Monday, October 19^th

• Kevin Diep

Wednesday, October 26^th

• Mike Ruggiero

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gmoulds@soe.ucsc.edu