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A long career as a designer, construction engineer, consulting engineer, expert witness, professor, teacher, researcher, and writer.
Born in the UK, living in the US since 1992
1-1 | Course Overview |
1-2 | An Engineer’s Roadmap to Successful Technical Communication |
1-3 | Grammar Demystified: A Key Skill for Engineers |
1-4 | English norms: unpacking English conventions and rules |
1-5 | Words That Work: Overcoming Challenges in Engineering Writing |
1-6 | Engineer’s Writing Mastery through Strong Sentences and Paragraphs |
1-7 | Building the Right Tone: The Power of Style in Communication |
1-8 | Engineer’s Guide to Building Effective Engineering Documents |
1-9 | Navigating Modern Communication: Strategies for Tech-Enhanced Writing |
1-10 | Illustrating Your Ideas: Strategies for Engineers in Graphic Production |
2-1 | An Engineer’s Roadmap to Successful Technical Communication |
2-2 | Crafting effective technical documents – the essential traits |
2-3 | Grammar: The Foundation of Professional Engineering Communication |
2-4 | Style: The Silent Superpower in Engineering Communication |
2-5 | Crimes against the English language |
2-6 | Raising the Bar: Initiatives for Technical Writing Improvement |
2-7 | Some common grammatical errors |
2-8 | Some more common grammatical errors |
1-1 | Course Overview |
1-2 | An Engineer’s Roadmap to Successful Technical Communication |
1-3 | Grammar Demystified: A Key Skill for Engineers |
1-4 | English norms: unpacking English conventions and rules |
1-5 | Words That Work: Overcoming Challenges in Engineering Writing |
1-6 | Engineer’s Writing Mastery through Strong Sentences and Paragraphs |
1-7 | Building the Right Tone: The Power of Style in Communication |
1-8 | Engineer’s Guide to Building Effective Engineering Documents |
1-9 | Navigating Modern Communication: Strategies for Tech-Enhanced Writing |
1-10 | Illustrating Your Ideas: Strategies for Engineers in Graphic Production |
3-1 | Grammar Demystified: A Key Skill for Engineers |
3-2 | Naming the Essentials: Nouns in Technical Writing |
3-3 | Personalizing Engineering Language: The Power of Pronouns |
3-4 | Painting a Picture: Adjectives for Engineers |
3-5 | Action-Packed Language: Mastering Verbs for Engineers |
3-6 | Enriching your verbs with adverbs |
3-7 | Spatial Clarity in Engineering: Prepositions in Action |
3-8 | Mastering Articles And Conjunctions for Engineers |
4-1 | English norms: unpacking English conventions and rules |
4-2 | Word agreement essentials: the language of precise English |
4-3 | Crafting clear engineering documents by embracing conventions |
4-4 | Punctuation-commas,hyphens,colons,question marks, periods |
4-5 | Punctuation-abbreviations,acronyms,apostrophes,bullets,capitals |
4-6 | The engineer’s spelling toolkit |
4-7 | Messing with the rules: when and why you should |
4-8 | Breaking the Mold By Leaving The Herd |
5-1 | Words That Work: Overcoming Challenges in Engineering Writing |
5-2 | Words that are so bad -stay away |
5-3 | Engineer’s lexicon: navigating essential word categories |
5-4 | Writing with Precision: Conquering Confused Word Pairs |
5-5 | Navigating Language Landmines: Strategies for awkward word choices |
5-6 | From mud to concrete through eliminating vagueness |
5-7 | Trimming the fat through wiping out redundancy |
5-8 | Simplify by identifying and then eliminating double negatives |
6-1 | Engineer’s Writing Mastery through Strong Sentences and Paragraphs |
6-2 | Sentence Mastery: Strategies to Fix Compound, Run-On, and Fragment Sentences |
6-3 | Sentence Mastery: Strategies to fix inverted and long sentences |
6-4 | Refining Engineering Communication: The Art of Sentence Editing |
6-5 | Engineer’s Language Toolkit: conquering logical comparisons |
6-6 | Writing with Consistency: Parallelism for Engineers |
6-7 | Excellence in Paragraph Construction |
6-8 | Enhancing Clarity: Editing Strategies for Engineers |
7-1 | Building the Right Tone: The Power of Style in Communication |
7-2 | Writing with Impact: Transforming Nouns into Verbs for Engineers |
7-3 | Ditch the Passive Voice – Embrace the Strength of the Active Voice |
7-4 | Striking the Right Tone through Balancing Style and Formality |
7-5 | Breaking Free from Officialese: Steering Clear of Overly Formal Language |
7-6 | Slang and Informality: A Guide for Engineers |
7-7 | Getting what you want through the power of persuasive writing |
7-8 | Explaining through narration: the power of storytelling |
8-1 | Engineer’s Guide to Building Effective Engineering Documents |
8-2 | Building comprehensive engineering documents: five proven steps |
8-3 | Effective Writing: Mastering Document Outlining for Engineers |
8-4 | How to expand a document outline |
8-5 | Before the start and after the end: Preliminary and Ancillary Content |
8-6 | Engineers Brainstorming: The Power of Free Writing |
8-7 | Engineer’s editing toolkit: elevate your document quality |
8-8 | The Crucial Role of Legal and Ethical Aspects in Engineering Documents |
9-1 | Navigating Modern Communication: Strategies for Tech-Enhanced Writing |
9-2 | 10 rules for email |
9-3 | Efficiency in Engineering Communication: The Power of Word Processing |
9-4 | Engineer’s Guide to Accessible Communication: Strategies for Inclusivity |
9-5 | Navigating the Future of Writing: Pros and Cons of A.I. generated text |
9-6 | Exploring the Limitations of Computer-Based Writing |
9-7 | The Timeless Power of Pen & Paper Writing |
9-8 | An Engineer’s Guide to Elevating Your Writing Skills: Practical Strategies |
10-1 | Illustrating Your Ideas: Strategies for Engineers in Graphic Production |
10-2 | Data Visualized: Crafting Raw Data into Graphs |
10-3 | Understanding Graphs and Graphics: Clear Definitions and Concepts |
10-4 | Deciphering Data Visuals: Graphs, Charts, And Their Distinctions |
10-5 | Navigating data representation: tables, drawings, illustrations |
10-6 | Engineer’s Graphic Toolkit: Rules and Techniques for Visual Impact |
10-7 | Engineering Ethics: Navigating the Moral Landscape of Visual Communication |
10-8 | Future trends in visual communication |
10 Courses • 72 Lectures • 56 Quizzes