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First Year Engineering - Oakland Campus Writing

This guide helps students in the First Year Engineering program at the Oakland Campus with their writing assignments.

Additional Resources

Additional Research Tips

The first link is for a PowerPoint tutorial that breaks down and explains in easy to understand language the process of reading scientific articles. The second link is to a scientific article with a complicated-sounding title.  Try reading it after you've looked at the tutorial!

The last is for a brief handout on beginning the research process.

Comic strip. First panel: "What are you doing" Second panel: "I have to make sure my paper complies with all the submission guidelines." Third panel "All the titles, text, captions, and references need to be the right font, point size and spacing, every margin and line - break must be at least 1/32 inch accurate." Panel four: "Gross. What is the conference about?" "Creativity in engineering. Darn my foot-notes are not sans serif..."

"Piled Higher and Deeper" by Jorge Cham
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