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technical_report_assignments_320.docxTechnical Report Assignments
Report #1 - Material:
Write a report about a recently developed non-metallic material. For this report, we will consider that recently means within the last 5 years. The length of the report needs to be between 1 1⁄2 to 2 pages in length. Include your references immediately after your last paragraph.
Report #2 - Process:
Write a report about a recently developed non-metallic process. For this report, we will also consider that recently means within the last 5 years. The length of the report needs to be between 1 1⁄2 to 2 pages in length. Include your references immediately after your last paragraph.
For both reports, use the help sheet posted in the course documents folder to guide you with the formatting requirements. Reports are due in person during class/lab time. You can turn in your reports earlier than the due date. Good luck on your research. I look forward to reading your papers.
Due date and time for both reports
When you are doing research for a writing assignment, there are a number of places you might go to get usable information for your report. Traditionally, the library has been the primary source, but over the years, this has changed to the Internet. Regardless of where you go to get information, you need to ask yourself three questions when you are looking at that information; is it appropriate, is it accurate, and is it current.
· The first thing to consider: is it appropriate for use in your writing assignment. Some of the information that you may find may be very interesting and appealing, but it may not really pertain to the topic that you are working on. You will need to look at the scope of your topic and make the decision: does this information really belong in what I am writing?
· The second thing you need to be aware of is that not everything you read on the Internet can be considered totally accurate or totally unbiased. This is why it is very important that you look for more than one source for your information. This gives you the opportunity to compare sources and allows you to make a more balanced decision on whether to use the information for your writing assignment. If you are looking for data on newer materials and processes, you need to realize that information that you get from an .org site might not be the same as a .com site. In fact, some of the information may be contradictory. Some sales based sites may only be interested in selling ‘their’ product or method. In some areas of development, there will always be some sort of controversy, if not about a materials possible usage, then possibly about which processes are best to be used with them.
· The third point you need to consider is whether the information is current. In some areas of research our knowledge base is rapidly changing, and what was considered to be understood as being accurate as little as 5 years ago, may not be correct today. A 15-year old study on fabrication techniques may give us a reference from which to compare to current methods, but it will not pass for making an informed statement on today’s situation.
After You Have Found Your Information
We must remember to give credit where credit is due. When writing a report, if you are quoting information directly from a source, be sure to remember to place it in quotations (“”). Follow this up with placing a reference to your source either after your quote or in a reference section at the end of your project. This helps the instructor to know which words are yours, and which words are your sources. When you turn in work that has been copied wholly or partially from any reference or source, and you have not referenced your sources, you are asking the instructor to grade someone else’s work, not your own. This is considered plagiarism. This is also considered a violation of EWU’s Academic Integrity policy. For further information, please refer to the Student Academic Integrity Policy located at http://www.ewu.edu/x4326.xml
