Welcome to Writing for Engineers!

ENG 210-07: Writing for Engineers
Section E2

Monday/Wednesday: 2:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.

Alexander Moser, Adjunct Lecturer
Email: amoser@ccny.cuny.edu

Office Hours:
Monday 3:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
(Or by appointment)

Course Description:

In this course we will learn various forms of technical writing specific to the engineering profession. We will read and discuss texts on engineering, technology, technical communication and science in order to explore ideas and identify compositional strategies. We will learn how to communicate our technical knowledge, plans, and ideas effectively and clearly in a professional manner to a variety of audiences. Assignments will include a technical description, a memo, a lab report, an engineering proposal, a presentation of the proposal, and a digital portfolio. You will create some of these individually and produce others in teams. You will also produce a number of short written assignments, contribute posts to the course group forum, and review your peers’ work.

Course Learning Outcomes:

  • Acknowledge your and others’ range of linguistic differences as resources, and draw on those resources to develop rhetorical sensibility
  • Enhance strategies for reading, drafting, revising, editing, and self-assessment
  • Negotiate your own writing goals and audience expectations regarding conventions of genre, medium, and rhetorical situation
  • Develop and engage in the collaborative and social aspects of writing processes
  • Engage in genre analysis and multimodal composing to explore effective writing across disciplinary contexts and beyond
  • Formulate and articulate a stance through and in your writing
  • Practice using various library resources, online databases, and the Internet to locate sources appropriate to your writing projects
  • Strengthen your source use practices (including evaluating, integrating, quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing, synthesizing, analyzing, and citing sources)
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