WELCOME TO TECHNICAL WRITING FOR COMPUTER ENGINEERS.

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

What would you like to know?

  1. Instructor: Gerald B. Moulds
    1. Office hours: Tuesday 5:00-6:30 at Social Sciences II #75
    2. Phone: (831) 588-4252
    3. e-mail: gmoulds@soe.ucsc.edu

 

  1. Teaching Assistant: Karl Young
    1. Office Hours: Thursday 5:00-6:30 at Social Sciences II #75
    2. Phone: (650) 728-0509 (no calls after 9:00 pm )
    3. e-mail: karly@soe.ucsc.edu
    4. Karl will be out of town between July 24 and August 9.
  1. Class meetings
    1. Location:          Social Sciences II #75
    2. Time:                Tuesdays and Thursdays 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm
  1. Assignments:

 

Assignment

Rough Draft Due

Final Due

1. Resume and Cover Letter

June 24

June 29

2. Algorithm Description

July 6

July 8

3. HTML Document

July 13

July 15

4. Project Proposal Memo

 

July 22

5. Library Puzzle

 

July 27

6. Survey Article

July 29

August 10

7. Document Specification

 

August 12

8. Poster Presentations

 

August 17 or 19

9. Progress Report

 

August 17 or 19

10. Final Project

 

To Be Announced

11.  Oral Presentations

 

Throughout Quarter

 

  1. Required texts
    1. The Elements of Style by Strunk and White. It is short, and you should read it all very early in the quarter.
    2. Technical Writing and Professional Communication for Nonnative Speakers of English by Huckin and Olsen. Some assigned reading, and a lot of good information for both native and nonnative speakers.
    3. The reading assignments should be finished by the dates listed, but feel free to read ahead.
    4. The class workbook.  This outlines many of the class goals and projects, but I will be making many minor changes.
  1. Please fill out the intake survey right away.
  2. Newsgroup
    1. There is a newsgroup (cmpe185@yahoogroups.com) for the class.
    2. Directions for joining can be found at :
                  http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/groups/groups-19.html
  1. 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, a library puzzle, various in-class writing assignments, and your participation in class and online discussions.
  2. Collaboration is good, and plagiarism is bad. Read more about it here.
  3. The Library Puzzle, due July 27.

 

 

The Presentations:

  1. Week of June 22 and 24
    1. No presentations scheduled.
  2. Week of June 29 and July 1
    1. Tuesday - John Sosa-Trustham
    2. Thursday - Chales Notley, Miguel Delgado
  3. Week of July 6 and July 8
    1. Tuesday: Jason Livingston, Randy Besprozvanny
    2. Thursday: Sean O'Kelley
  4. Week of July 13 and July 15
    1. Tuesday:
    2. Thursday: Alan Chern
  5. Week of July 20 and 22
    1. Tuesday:
    2. Thursday: Ian Clark
  6. Week of July 27 and 29
    1. Tuesday: James Gideon, Neha Wadhawan, Prashanti Kuncham, Casey Hutchings, Tien Tran
    2. Thursday: Duylinh Nguyen ,Ian Dunbar-Hill, Amanuel Mengistu, Satender Bains, Anh-Duy Nguyen
  7. Week of August 3 and 5
    1. Tuesday: Charles Shy, Steven Chhay, Abhishek Sharma, Andy Ames, Robin Chang
    2. Thursday: Brant Jameson, Jason Tyler, Montgomery Shen, Dara Lee, Emily Quader, Rinkee Vajracharya
  8. Week of August 10 and 12
    1. TBA
  9. Week of August 17 and 19
    1. Poster Presentations - No Oral Presentations
  10. Week of August 24 and 26
    1. TBA

 

 

 

gmoulds@soe.ucsc.edu