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Lesson 8: Organizing
​Technical Reports

For engineering and scientific projects, reports provide documentation. This lesson discusses the organization of reports. The content here arises from Lesson 7 in The Craft of Scientific Writing.

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Films: Organizing Reports

     Paragraph on organizing reports

Avoiding needless complexity at the word level (Part 1).


Avoiding needless complexity at the word level (Part 2).


Films: Organizing Reports

     Paragraph on quizzes and exercises for organizing reports.


References for Lesson 8

  1. Alley, Michael, The Craft of Scientific Writing, 4th ed. (New York: Springer Verlag, 2018), Lesson 5.​
  2. George Whitesides, “Whitesides’ Group: Writing a Paper,” Advanced Materials, vol. 16, no. 15 (2004), pp. 1375-1377.
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