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The Engineering Communication Manual addresses authentic writing issues and communication tasks faced by engineers, such as collaborative writing, design of data graphics, and poster presentations. The text helps students to generate effective technical arguments and to think critically about how they present content.
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The Purdue OWL provides handouts and exercises on grammar, mechanics, and punctuation.
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Michael Alley’s website includes short videos of students giving presentations using assertion-evidence design as well as free templates.
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Nancy Duarte provides her book Slidedocs as well as free templates on her website.
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This 2 minute video emphasizes that less can be more. It works well as an introduction to design, whether of résumés, slides, or handouts.
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This short parody includes technical jargon gibberish, illustrating an audience accommodation failure.
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Melissa Marshall provides tips on how to present complex scientific information to a general audience. This 5 minute video can be used for a lesson on audience accommodation, talks, or for introducing the course as a whole.
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This 5 minute talks provides an example of an adapted elevator talk and uses effective slide design. It can also be used an example of how to establish exigence or why an audience should care about the topic.
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This 2.5 minute video provides a humorous introduction to communication ethics and GM case study in the Ethics module.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6IZ2TroruU
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Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s talk “warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding” fits well into a lesson plan on accommodating global and cultural differences.
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The pages describing the rockets illustrate the principles of proximity, alignment, repetition, and contrast. http://www.spacex.com/dragon
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In NASA’s Ask Magazine, John Casani, an engineer at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, criticizes the tendency in contemporary engineering workplaces to use email and PowerPoint for project work rather than the more formal channels of communication, such as the engineering memo or technical report.
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“We Have Met the Enemy and He is PowerPoint,” The New York Times, April 26, 2010This article includes criticisms of PowerPoint from the U.S. military and reinforces Edward Tufte’s criticisms.
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“The Most Surprising Things About America, According to an Indian International Student”This article about an international student’s impression of American culture can be used to initiate a reflection on one’s own cultural assumptions and communication styles. http://www.businessinsider.com/the-weirdest-things-about-america-2013-8
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