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Guide for technical report writing

STYLE GUIDE FOR TECHNICAL REPORT WRITING Sabri Tosunoglu Ph D Department of Mechanical Engineering Florida International University Miami Florida GENERAL Your goal as an engineer is to write technical reports that are formal logically organized and easy to read and understand Normally the reader does not know anything about your report You need to explain what you have done step by step in a logical sequence Title should capture the essence in a few words Abstract should describe the entire work in a few hundred words usually one paragraph Use formal language and prefer the tone used in textbooks Even the opinions should be stated in a formal neutral tone Make sure sentences are structured correctly and each sentence has a meaning and a message If a sentence does not read well or is cumbersome do not hesitate to rewrite it Avoid long sentences Even if they are logically correct the meaning gets lost when too many phrases and conditions are put together Make sure that your report or anything you write as an engineer is free of grammatical errors Even a simple grammatical error will distract the reader re ect poorly on you and you will lose credibility in the eyes of the reader Do not use phrases such as I did this we did that Let ? s talk about this Like prefer ??such as ? Avoid simpli ?cations in formal writing for example Avoid ??don ? t ? use ??do not ? Avoid ??didn ? t ? use ??did not ? Avoid ??won ? t ? use ??will not ? and so on Write as if all the work has been completed even if it is not the case yet Revision of such manuscript will be much simpler than the one which describes everything in future tense and vague Style Guide for Technical Report Writing ? Sabri Tosunoglu Ph D CFIGURES Figure numbers and ?gure titles should appear below the ?gures Example FIGURE GOES HERE Figure Layout of the designed system Use the same style consistently throughout the report Use the same font size capitalization style in all ?gures Refer to each ?gure in the text by saying for example this is illustrated in Figure We can also say that Figure shows the designed system or sometimes we can say something about the system See Figure Avoid referencing a ?gure by indicating its location as ??above ? or ??below ? the text - since ?gures and text move as a document is developed For instance do not use ??as shown in Figure above or this is illustrated in Figure below ? Simply refer to Figure wherever it may be Make sure each axis has a title and a unit in every chart Font size in ?gures should be selected carefully so that each character used in a ?gure is legible If a ?gure is borrowed from another source it must be clearly indicated within the text and in the ?gure title FIGURE GOES HERE Figure Engineering drawing