Writing Handouts from the Center for Communication Practices at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Posted on Monday, March 23, 2009 | Filed under ,

The Center for Communication Practices at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute offers great handouts that were designed to help students complete specific writing assignments at the institute as well as tackle real-life writing tasks, such as writing cover letters, writing resumes, and writing graduate school essays. All the handouts are available for free access online, making them useful as self-study materials for any students who are working on their own.

Topics covered by the handouts:

  • Citation Styles: APA Style, MLA Style
  • Guidelines for Specific Rensselaer Courses: Proposal for Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering; Progress Report for ECSE; Final Report for ECSE; Laboratory Introduction to Embedded Control; Lab Report Suggested for Electrical Engineering
  • ESL Students: Article Usage
  • Careers and Graduate School: Cover Letters, Resumes, Graduate School Essays
  • Types of Writing: Revising Prose, Thesis Writing, Abstracts, Definitional Techniques, Gender-Fair Language
  • Styles of Writing: Critiques, Lab Reports, Memos, Presentations
Site URL: http://www.ccp.rpi.edu/handouts.html

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