- Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students: Formal Reports
The Reports section of this comprehensive Web site features helpful strategies for writing and formatting all types of reports including lab reports, progress reports, and design reports. It discusses guidelines for writing front matter, main text, and back matter of reports; it also presents three sample reports and a report checklist.
- Engineering Technical Reports
From the Writing Center at Colorado State University, this site offers a comprehensive guide to writing technical reports. It discusses front matter, body text, and back matter and includes a sample report.
- NASA Technical Report Writing
This Web site from NASA's technical publications department presents a thorough guide to writing technical reports. It also offers links to additional resources useful to technical writers.
- Online Technical Writing: Technical Reports
Part of David A. McMurrey's Online Technical Writing online text, this Web site discusses in-depth the different types of technical reports, their typical elements, and recommended organizational strategies for each. It also includes sample reports and a revision checklist.
- Writing Logical Arguments
This Web site, created by Professor Dennis G. Jerz at the University of Wisconsin, describes techniques for developing and writing logical arguments in academic and professional writing. He discusses several argumentation models, including the classical model and the Toulmin model, and offers tips for recognizing logical fallacies.
- The Toulmin Project Home Page
Created by students at the University of Nebraska, this Web site offers a discussion of Stephen Toulmin's theory of argumentation.
- The Passive Voice
This Web page from Professor Charles Darling's Guide to Grammar and Writing provides a quick overview of passive and active voices and the appropriate situations each can be used in.
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