1. Outline: Peer Review Topic References For Each Domain
Be prepared to discuss how topic is relevant to Emerging Adulthood domains
References
References related to topic and domains?
In APA format?
For Each Domain
Study cited?
Description of study subjects?
Results of study?
Your words on study relevance to topic in domain

3. Tips for Writing Great Reports
ENGR 10

4. Technical Writing is Everywhere
Annual Report: 12-month summary and evaluation of finances and activities
Environmental Impact Report (EIR)
Feasibility Study: consequences of possible actions
Final Report: results of completed work

5. Lab Report: results of experiments, procedures
Incident Report: description of injury or hazardous material spill
Justification Report: explanation for actions taken
Maintenance Report: product repair and service record for a given period
Meeting Minutes

6. Personnel Report: evaluation of an employee's work
Preliminary Report: task analysis
Progress Report: work accomplished to date
Research Report: summary of research completed
Sales Report: sales figures for a given period
Trip Report: expenses and activities

7. ENGR 10 Reports Solar Cell Laboratory Report
Wind Turbine Design and Performance
Robot Design and Performance

8. Goal of your reports
Reader could replicate what you did without having to talk with you in person
Synthesize and summarize what you have learned
An important part of the learning process

9. Getting Started Writing or Speaking
Determine your purpose
What’s my purpose?
Determine your audience
Who is my audience?

10. What is my purpose?
Informative
Persuasive
Analysis
Instructional

11. Who is my audience? Business Technical General Public Age Group Gender
Culture

12. Write to your Audience
Write your report in this class toward a fellow engineering student.
Provide enough detail so that an engineering student who hasn’t take ENGR 10 could replicate what you have done.

13. Parts of a Report Title Page Summary Table Of Contents Introduction
Methods (Experimental Setup)
Results
Conclusions
References
Appendix

14. Title Page Title page lists at minimum:
Title of the project (descriptive and specific)
Entity
San José State University, Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering, E10 Introduction to Engineering
Names of the team members
E10 section number and team number
Name of Lab Instructor
Date of submission

15. Parts of a Report Title Page Summary Table Of Contents Introduction
Experimental Setup
Results
Conclusions
References
Appendix

16. Summary/Abstract
This section goes after the title page but before the table of contents
Designed for the busy person
Succinctly introduce project (what it is, what you did)
Summarize key results (performance data)
Summarize what you learned

17. Which might be a good first sentence of your summary?
In the beginning we sat at a computer station and brainstormed ideas about the design of our turbine blades.
The purpose of the project was to construct and model a wind turbine by designing our own blade to harness the maximum wind power and a lightweight support structure, stiff enough to resist deflection.
First we used the glue to attach PVC pipe to the standard wood base that we were given.

18. Parts of a Report Title Page Summary Table Of Contents Introduction
Experimental Setup
Results
Conclusions
References
Appendix

19. Table of Contents Comes after the Summary
Start Page 1 as the Introduction page
Title page has no number
Other pages before Introduction can be numbered i, ii, iii, etc.
It should include all the sections / subsections headings with the starting page number for each.

20. Parts of a Report Title Page Summary Table Of Contents Introduction
Experimental Setup
Results
Conclusions
References
Appendix

21. Introduction Describes relevant background information (1 to 2 pages).
What the project was about, first in general (main goal)
Then describe what you did to achieve that goal
Make sure that you include sufficient sketches, drawings, and/or photographs and verbiage
To clearly explain to someone unfamiliar with this project what it is all about.
You may use sketches from the Project Guidelines, but cite your source.
Refer to the Project Description regarding goals and specifications found on pages 1-2, Wind Turbine Design Project.

22. Parts of a Report Title Page Summary Table Of Contents Introduction
Experimental Setup
Results
Conclusions
References
Appendix

23. Experimental Setup
You are answering the question: HOW were the rotor and tower: designed, constructed and tested?
Use relevant sketches, drawings, pictures
Type, shape and dimensions (and possibly cost if known) of the materials used
Name/describe the major tools used during the design and construction (build) stages
Describe the type of tests performed on the project, the purpose of each test and its outcome
Name/describe the major tools/measuring equipment used during the testing stage.
See “Design – Build – Test” in WindTurbineDesignProject2013 document
You will have achieved success in writing this section if a peer in the class could take what you have written, and referring to it alone, be able to reproduce your device.

24. Use Headings and Subheadings
3. Design, Construction and Test
Blah blah blah
3.1 Turbine Blade Design and Construction
3.2 Support Structure Design and Construction
3.3 Turbine and Structure Testing

25. State Your Reasoning No clear reason Clear reason
We decided to create a three blade rotor because we believed this would give us the best possible results.
Clear reason
We decided to create a three blade rotor because a three blade configuration is the most stable (Jones, 2008).

26. Theories
Describe briefly any theory(ies) that apply to your project, including any applicable formulas.
Examples: Bernoulli, Betz’ Limit, Power Theorem,…

27. Use Equations Instead of a sentence like this:
The factors of the power include voltage (volts), which is equal to the current (amperes) multiplied by the resistance.
Just write:
Power (watts) is calculated using the following equation:
P=VxI (Eq. 1)
where V is voltage (volts) and I is current (amperes).

28. Use pictures/sketches
Here is the description from a report:
We took a geometric view on the matter and decided to construct a 90 degree angle using simply two sets of wooden beams after measuring the angles of each beam. We set them parallel to one another to maximize the strength of our design.
Can you figure out what the structure looked like?

29. Using Figures to Clarify
As shown in Figure 1, the support structure consisted of a right triangle made of two wood pieces to provide stiffness in the direction of the wind. In addition, two small triangular elements were installed at the base in the perpendicular direction to resist potential loads from the side and minimize oscillation.
Figure 1: Turbine support structure provides resistance to loads in two perpendicular directions.
Note figure caption and its location

30. Parts of a Report Title Page Summary Table Of Contents Introduction
Theory
Experimental Setup
Results
Conclusions
References
Appendix

31. Results Include tables of key data and graphs of key results
MUST include text to describe what is in each of the tables.
Data plots for the following parameters and briefly discuss the performance.
Turbine Stiffness
Voltage vs. Current
Power vs. Current
Compare the actual power generated versus the theoretical power, and calculate the efficiency.
Create a graph of your load and deflection data, and use Excel curve fitting techniques to determine the stiffness.

32. A Table is NOT a Figure
Table1: Displacement Data for Turbine Support Tower
Note Title Location
Applied Mass
m (gm)
Applied Weight
W= m*g/1000 (N)
Displacement
(mm) 20
0.196
0.02
100
0.98
0.09
500
4.9
0.51
1000
9.8
1.58
Figure 1: Displacement Data for Turbine Support Tower
Incorrect

33. What does this results graph represent?
I have no idea
Voltage vs. current
Voltage vs. power
Current vs. power
Power vs. blade speed

34. Can you figure it out now?
Figure 1: Turbine power generally decreased with increased voltage. The circled voltage readings are suspect.

35. What is wrong with this stiffness graph?
Nothing
Load and displacement axes are reversed
Load is in kg
Scale on x-axis is not proportional to values
B, C, and D

36. The same data plotted correctly
Stiffness = 1.1N/mm
The same data plotted correctly

37. Be Concise – Eliminate Unnecessary Words
Wordy:
In the graph that shows load against displacement (Figure 1) displays the stiffness of the structure where the displacement increases as the load increases. The stiffness that we got from our project is 6.08 N/mm.
Concise
The calculated stiffness was 6.08 N/mm, which is slope of the linear relationship between load and displacement in Figure 1.

38. Write in the Third Person
Also Try
Results indicated
The choice of …
Plots of the data show
A 75 W lamp served as the source
Tasks included …
The purpose of this lab was to derive …
Instead of
We found
Our choice of …
When plotted, we see that
We used a 75 W lamp as the source
Our tasks were to…
In this lab we derived…

39. Parts of a Report Title Page Summary Table Of Contents Introduction
Experimental Setup
Results
Conclusions
References
Appendix

40. Conclusions Summarize The work done What was learned
Explanation of any anomalies, errors
The outcomes of the project,
Such as how well it worked or didn't work
How did the efficiency of your turbine compare with the efficiency of typical turbines in use today?

41. Recommendations Could be a subheading under Conclusions
What would you do if you had more time
What would you do differently, given what you know now
Give specific recommendations

42. Parts of a Report Title Page Summary Table Of Contents Introduction
Experimental Set Up
Results
Conclusions
References
Appendix

43. Cite Reference in Text (APA Style)
Author-date method of in-text citation
Author (Year) or (Author, Year)
Ex: Smith (2007) found that…
Or Title of article (Year)
According to Betz’ Law, only 59% of the kinetic energy in the wind can be converted to mechanical energy using a wind turbine (Betz’, 2003).

44. Reference List (APA) Alphabetize by author
If there is no author, use title to alphabetize
Examples
Betz’ Law. (2003). Retrieved October 28, 2008 from Danish Wind Industry Association website
National Renewable Resource Laboratory (NREL). (2006). U.S. PV Cell Costs. Retrieved September 27, 2008 from Data360 Web site
Wind Energy FAQ. (2009). Retrieved January 27, 2009 from American Wind Energy Association Web Site

45. Article from Online Journal
Last Name, First Initial, Middle Initial (Year Published). Title of article. Title of Online Journal, Volume Number(issue number if available), pp. Pages, doi:# or Retrieved from URL
Bernstein, M. (2002). 10 tips on writing the living web. A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites, p 149. Retrieved from

46. Article from Journal in Print
Last Name, First Initial, Middle Initial & Author, B. B. (Year Published). Title of article. Title of Online Journal, Volume Number(issue number if available), pp. Pages
More examples in Emerging Adulthood Paper Guidelines

47. Parts of a Report Title Page Summary/Abstract/ Executive Summary
Table Of Contents
Introduction (what and why)
Theory
Experimental Setup (how)
Results (what you found)
Conclusions (what it means)
References
Appendix

48. Appendices
Contains any other information that might help someone trying to do a similar project (data sheets, catalog pages, etc.).
Required appendix elements
Appendix A - Original data sheet used in the laboratory
Appendix B - Evaluates teamwork by answering questions

49. Pitfalls to Avoid Extremely Long Paragraphs One sentence paragraphs
A paragraph that is one page long is likely too long
Identify the main points you are trying to make
Use the main points as topic sentences
Use three or four sentences in paragraph to build on topic sentence.
One sentence paragraphs
You can not fully develop an idea in one sentence

50. Spellcheck Your Report
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51. Proofread Your Report
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