Technical Writing Class Schedule 2024
Note: This is the first year that this course is being taught. Consequently this schedule is a "proposed" schedule and subject to change without notices.
Week |
Date |
Description |
Assignment Notes |
Due Date |
1 |
01/11/2024 |
LaTeX - Setting up the Environment |
HW01 - Demo your Env. |
01/18/2024 |
2 |
01/18/2024 |
LaTeX - Knowing your way around LaTeX |
HW02 - Compiling your first paper |
01/25/2024 |
3 |
01/25/2024 |
LaTeX - Philosophy and Practice of writing in LaTeX |
HW03 - Why LaTeX, the benefits |
02/01/2024 |
4 |
02/01/2024 |
LaTeX - Figures, Tables, Source Code, Labels and Refs |
HW04 - Using Grammarly plus Adding Figures, Tables, labels, references, and source code. |
02/08/2024 |
5 |
02/08/2024 |
Mechanics - Writing clear, concise, and proper English for Computing Research |
HW05 - Correcting a paper using Dr. A's Rules for writing |
02/15/2024 |
6 |
02/15/2024 |
Mechanics Continued - Passive Voice and why we avoid it. |
HW06 - Correcting passive voice sentences and using Dr. A's Rules for writing |
02/22/2024 |
7 |
02/22/2024 |
Mechanics Continued - The purpose of each section and the content they contain |
HW07 - Identify Contribution, Motivation, Problem statement, etc. |
02/29/2024 |
8 |
02/29/2024 |
Paper Types - Proposals, Project & Research Papers - How they are similar and different |
HW08 - Classify 10 papers as Project or Research papers |
03/07/2024 |
9 |
03/07/2024 |
Paper Types - Seminal Works and Survey Papers - how are they different |
HW09 - Classify 4 papers as Seminal or Survey papers |
03/14/2024 |
10 |
03/14/2024 |
Research - Finding quality, relevant research: Google Scholar and other methods |
HW10 - Finding and classifying papers for your research paper |
03/21/2024 |
11 |
03/21/2024 |
Research - How do we read research? The types of papers you will encounter |
HW11 - Find find a good seminal, survey, research, or project paper on your topic |
03/28/2024 |
12 |
03/28/2024 |
Research - Evaluating research for inclusion in relevant work |
HW12 - Background with Bibliography - JabRef and annotations - Minimum 10 Cites |
04/04/2024 |
13 |
04/04/2024 |
Writing the introduction - the hardest section to write |
HW13 - Re-draft an introduction to a badly worded paper |
04/11/2024 |
14 |
04/11/2024 |
Writing up your work |
HW14 - The middle sections of your paper |
04/18/2024 |
15 |
04/18/2024 |
Conclusions and Future Work |
HW15 - Turn in your Paper |
04/25/2024 |
16 |
04/25/2024 |
Presenting your work |
HW16 - Submit a recorded presentation or your research/project in this class |
Final |
Final |
TBA |
Turn in recorded presentation of your work |
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