A two-day course on technical report writing including:
- Organisation and structure
- Planning the report
- Accuracy, brevity and clarity
- Report structure
- Style
- Rules of style and grammar
- Punctuation
- SI unit abbreviations
- Graphical presentation of data
- Presenting data clearly in tables and figures
- Trend line and curve fitting
- Error bars
- Graphical representation of processes
- Statistical methods
- Types of average
- Statistical distributions
- Deviations from normality
- Outliers
- Comparing means and variances
- Evaluating linearity
- Practical sessions:
- Identifying errors in report extracts
- Designing tables and figures
- Writing a report using model data