Writing Skills
Writing well is a skill that takes time and practice. This page features resources to help you write more clearly, concisely, and correctly as an engineer.
Editing Your Writing
Workshop Recording: Editing Your Writing
In this previously recorded workshop, Dr. Kittle Autry leads students through important steps of editing, including how to craft clear, concise, and correct sentences. Click the video to view the Zoom recording (NC State users only).
Dr. KA's Guide to Writing More Concisely
A persistent misnomer in technical writing is that we need to use enormous words and complex sentences structures to sound smart. Not so! In fact, a writer comes across the "smartest" when the text can be easily understood by the reader. After all, we are always producing our work for others, right? This guide (at right) will help you to find unnecessarily complicated terms and replace them with the clearer, more concise version.
Bookmark the go link for easy access to this guide when you need it:
Technical Communication Video Series
Communicating effectively as an engineer is essential. In this video series written and produced by the director of graduate professional development, we cover skills you need to write effectively as an engineer. These videos are short (all less then 10 minutes!) and give you the essentials for improving your skills.
To bookmark this helpful series, visit the CCEE department's playlist at: go.ncsu.edu/tech-comm-videos.