Technical Writing Class Schedule 2025

Note: This is the first year that this course is being taught. Consequently this schedule is a "proposed" schedule and subject to change without notices.

• Week	Date	Description	Assignment Notes/Ideas	Due Date
  1	01/16/2025	LaTeX - The Overleaf Environment Knowing your way around, Grammarly, & the Document. Can I use AI for research? Yes… But! Why we read. Pick a topic	HW01 - Create an Education account on Overleaf.com. Create an education account on Grammarly and get it ready to use with your browser. Read: https://tug.ctan.org/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf before the next class. (You may skip sections: 2.5, 4.7, 4,8, 5.*, Appendix A.)	01/23/2025
  2	01/23/2025	LaTeX - Knowing your way around LaTeX and OverLeaf with references- Formatting your first paper with an image	HW02 - Compiling your first paper. Have them pull up a paper that they have written in the past and convert it to LaTeX. It must have images and references	01/30/2025
  3	01/30/2025	LaTeX - Philosophy and Practice of writing in LaTeX, using Grammarly and the rules of writing		02/06/2025
  4	02/06/2025	LaTeX - The nuances of Figures, Tables, Source Code, Labels and Refs	HW04 - Using Grammarly plus Adding Figures, Tables, labels, references and source code etc.	02/27/2025
  5	02/13/2025	The purpose of Proposals, Project, Survey & Research Papers	HW08 - Classify 10 papers as Project or Research papers	02/20/2025
  6	02/20/2025	Finding quality, relevant research: Google Scholar and other methods	HW09 - Classify 10 papers as Seminal or Survey papers. Make sure they are relevant to your topic	03/20/2025
  7	02/27/2025	Mechanics - Writing clear, concise, and proper English for Computing Research		03/06/2025
  8	03/06/2025	Mechanics Continued - Passive Voice and why we avoid it.	HW06 - Correcting passive voice sentences and using Dr. A's rules for writing	03/13/2025
  9	03/13/2025	Mechanics Continued - The purpose of each section and the content they contain	HW07 - Identify Contribution, Motivation, Problem statement, etc.	02/13/2025
  10	03/20/2025	Spring Break		03/27/2025
  11	03/27/2025	Research - How do we reading and evaulating research for inclusion in your paper	HW10 - Hand in a BibTeX file with an additional 10 references (from what you turned in for HW09) that are relevant to your paper. Make sure that they include the following information in the comments: Relevance to your paper, Specific claims that you will use in your paper, future work identified in the paper.	04/03/2025
  12	04/03/2025	Writing the introduction - the hardest section to write		04/10/2025
  13	04/10/2025	Writing up your work	HW13 - Re-draft an introduction to a badly worded paper	04/17/2025
  14	04/17/2025	Writing Conclusions and Future Work	HW14 - The middle sections of your paper	04/24/2025
  15	04/24/2025	Presenting your work	HW15 - Turn in your Paper	05/01/2025
  16	05/01/2025	Presentations	HW16 - Submit a recorded presentation or your research/project in this class	Final