Session S2E Teaching Technical Writing for Computer Engineers Using the Web
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Technical communication is extremely important for engineering education (ABET) requirements, but limited resources make it challenging to offer writing-intensive classes in a growing engineering school. Use of online technologies can help writingintensive classes to scale. We describe our experiences using a variety of Web-based functions to teach and administrate CMPE185, Technical Writing for Computer Engineers, at UCSC. Our major contribution is an online peer editing system for document markup that uses Adobe Acrobat R or Microsoft Word R for annotations. The peer editing software comes with a manual for both students and instructors and is available at http://www.collage.soe.ucsc.edu. Index Terms — distance learning, document markup, peer editing, writing education
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