ENGINEER 1P03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Flowchart, List Of Fables Characters

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Engineering (General)
• Course: ENGINEER 1P03
• Professor: Robert Fleisig

Document Summary

Reporting is essential to a design project. If we cannot communicate our ideas to the client, then they are of no value to the client. Communicate using things including oral presentations, final reports, and prototypes and models: primary purpose of this is to communicate the explanations of why and how this design was chosen over other designs. We must convey the results of the design process: should not be narratives or novels, but rather short succinct descriptions of design outcomes and the processes which spawned those outcomes. 7 principles of technical writing: know your purpose. We need to understand the goals of a report or presentation. This depends on the stage that the presentation takes place, whether at the beginning to convince a client of a best design alternative, or at the end to showcase the final project: know your audience. What is the technical level of the target audience.