Writing for Engineering Students?

Different poster. Which edition of book? There are 4.

Watching this post with interest. DS (16) is the usual suspect; strong math, science, business kid. Will pursue CS combined with business. Writing is his weakness. I am a writer, so I failed my son lol. He uses fancy words appropriately, but his sentence structure is abysmal. Keep explaining that writing is absolutely critical for business and CS. I'm exhausted from the effort.

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09/10/2019 13:43

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Anonymous

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Anonymous wrote:Buy the book The Craft of Research for excellent writing training.

Different poster. Which edition of book? There are 4.

Watching this post with interest. DS (16) is the usual suspect; strong math, science, business kid. Will pursue CS combined with business. Writing is his weakness. I am a writer, so I failed my son lol. He uses fancy words appropriately, but his sentence structure is abysmal. Keep explaining that writing is absolutely critical for business and CS. I'm exhausted from the effort.

Technical writing is way different than writing prose. You might have actually saved him by not teaching him how you write and he can just learn how engineers write.

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09/10/2019 14:12

Subject: Writing for Engineering Students?

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Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Buy the book The Craft of Research for excellent writing training.

Different poster. Which edition of book? There are 4.

Watching this post with interest. DS (16) is the usual suspect; strong math, science, business kid. Will pursue CS combined with business. Writing is his weakness. I am a writer, so I failed my son lol. He uses fancy words appropriately, but his sentence structure is abysmal. Keep explaining that writing is absolutely critical for business and CS. I'm exhausted from the effort.

Technical writing is way different than writing prose. You might have actually saved him by not teaching him how you write and he can just learn how engineers write.

Thank you! Just one kind reply made a difference in my day. I'll get back to backing off.

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09/10/2019 16:22

Subject: Writing for Engineering Students?

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Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Buy the book The Craft of Research for excellent writing training.

Different poster. Which edition of book? There are 4.

Watching this post with interest. DS (16) is the usual suspect; strong math, science, business kid. Will pursue CS combined with business. Writing is his weakness. I am a writer, so I failed my son lol. He uses fancy words appropriately, but his sentence structure is abysmal. Keep explaining that writing is absolutely critical for business and CS. I'm exhausted from the effort.

Technical writing is way different than writing prose. You might have actually saved him by not teaching him how you write and he can just learn how engineers write.

Unlikely. I've worked as a writer in a number of technical fields and the sheer number of people who cannot write a basic, coherent sentence is astonishing. Yes, technical writing is different than prose writing, but basic writing skills are universal. Too often, STEM professionals lack those skills, because, as one showed us earlier, they consider it "soft" and a "fake" skill and a "waste of time."

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09/10/2019 17:17

Subject: Writing for Engineering Students?

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Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Buy the book The Craft of Research for excellent writing training.

Different poster. Which edition of book? There are 4.

Watching this post with interest. DS (16) is the usual suspect; strong math, science, business kid. Will pursue CS combined with business. Writing is his weakness. I am a writer, so I failed my son lol. He uses fancy words appropriately, but his sentence structure is abysmal. Keep explaining that writing is absolutely critical for business and CS. I'm exhausted from the effort.

Technical writing is way different than writing prose. You might have actually saved him by not teaching him how you write and he can just learn how engineers write.

Unlikely. I've worked as a writer in a number of technical fields and the sheer number of people who cannot write a basic, coherent sentence is astonishing. Yes, technical writing is different than prose writing, but basic writing skills are universal. Too often, STEM professionals lack those skills, because, as one showed us earlier, they consider it "soft" and a "fake" skill and a "waste of time."

Sure, but a prose writer trying to teach a tech writer is a disaster. Nobody is going to read the fluff, get to the point. It follows a pattern, very different than prose. Besides, software fixes most the grammatical errors and nothing goes to press without an edit.