Writing like an engineering professional

Bernadette Longo

doi:10.1109/WIE.2017.8285605

Writing like an engineering professional

Bernadette Longo

Humanities and Social Sciences

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Abstract

This paper presents a technique for assessing the social context of writing and then using that assessment to make writing decisions. To do this, it includes models of the rhetorical situation and the pragmatic situation that can be used to generate justifications for certain textual patterns. The paper also presents sample techniques for using these models to analyze the rhetorical and pragmatic situations as applied to writing a technical report. This paper is based on The IEEE Guide to Writing in the Engineering and Technical Professions (2017), published by IEEE/Wiley Press in the IEEE Professional Communication Society series.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2017 IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Forum USA East
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	1-5
Number of pages	5
Volume	2017-November
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538619407
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/WIE.2017.8285605
State	Published - Feb 7 2018
Event	2017 IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Forum USA East, WIE 2017 - Baltimore, United States Duration: Nov 30 2017 → Dec 2 2017

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Other	2017 IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Forum USA East, WIE 2017
Country/Territory	United States
City	Baltimore
Period	11/30/17 → 12/2/17

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Education
Gender Studies
Computer Science (miscellaneous)
Engineering (miscellaneous)

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