Web complemented reports and digital rhetoric
- academic genre
- open topic choice
- focused on ethical dilemma and structured ways to solve these dilmemas (utilitarianism/greatest good, virtue ethics, formalism/principles, and contractarianism/self-interest)
The technical paper
- IEEE format--double-columns
- keywords
- abstract
- figures
- structure: introduction, formulation of the problem, results, conclusion
- references
The web-enabled text
Writing well in Chemical Engineering
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~wacblog/
Mechanical Engineering 200
University of Alberta, Summer 2012
The persuasive paper (in the form of a technical report)
Paper topics
- free tuition for Alberta university students
- Challenger disaster: launch or not?