Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Your final technical report

As you are in the final days of working on your technical report, other than time-management issues, what part of the project has given you the most trouble? Is it the aesthetic component? Is it the integration of your primary research? How about the demand that you make your terminology and research comprehensible for non-experts? Or the integration and discussion of images? What about grammar and style? Or the incorporation of secondary research in a smooth and meaningful way? What is the hardest for you at this point?

5 comments:

  1. What I've been having the most trouble with is making a clear distinction in my introduction between my specific project and the problem as a whole, since mine deals specifically with the effects of phytoestrogens and most of my introduction deals with the problem of pharmaceuticals in the water as an unspecified whole.

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  2. The thing that has given me the most trouble is relating everything to the general audience. It has been hard because I have been trained to speak in technical terms throughout college and now I have to revert back and make it understandable. Finding secondary research was fairly easy because I have used journals and books for previous experiments. Another thing that I had trouble with was grammar, like the majority of Techies do. Mostly was comma usage and sentence structure. There might even be those mistakes in this comment.

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  3. The thing that has given me the most trouble was wondering if the group would be completely done with the project. The due date for the technical paper was earlier then the date of the presentations for the projects. It wasn't too much trouble making the paper understandable for a general audience because i think i knew enough about the project that i could explain it to a general audience. Grammar and style were a problem, but i believe i re-read the paper enough to correct those problems. The hardest part was probably correctly placing commas.

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  4. The most difficult aspect of the project is explaining the information. Probably half to two thirds of the content is explaining the terms that are used to explain the research. Also seconday research is difficult to find on topics that are so recent as in the security field. Articles in journals are at least 6 months old and by information security metrics this is ancient.

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  5. As it is required to be a junior in order to enroll in this class, everyone should already be adept at writing technically and citing appropriately. The hardest part for me, and assuming everyone was taking that dry tecchnical report we all know how to write and transforming it into an understandable paper. It was initially difficult, but became easier to change phrases from "chemically enhanced adsorption media achieved an effective removal isotherm" to "steel wool corroded by acid successfully attached to contaminants and removed them from solution."

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