You can skim across all of these documents or focus instead on the process of analysis we discuss here. We invite you to take issue with our interpretations, and have tried to give you some of the raw data on which to base your own interpretation. I n our work with Engineering courses and students, we have worked with a course called Introduction to Electrical Fundamentals. In this course, the professor assigned a report as part of the ongoing push to incorporate communication into the Engineering curriculum at University of Toronto. From ECE Assignment Sheet, Paragraph One Communication skills are a necessity in the professional life of an engineer.
Formal reports are one of the primary means of communication.
Read it carefully before you start writing. The objective is to help you develop competence in conveying technical information which will be essential to your future career. T he professor asked the students to compare four labs, analyzing the relationship between them. I suggested that he was in fact asking the students to attain a significant cognitive objective synthesis. I believe that we were successful in the first of these but not the second.