This document discusses how to write a technical report. It recommends beginning by specifying the requested information and satisfying the content and style requirements. To satisfy content requirements, the writer should simulate the reader by considering what they want to know and brainstorming questions to structure the report. The questions provide the report structure, and answering them fulfills the content. Characteristics like being comprehensive and to-the-point should be considered for style. Technical reports deliver requested information in a reliable way and their quality can be judged by how clear the goal is, how well-organized the structure is, and how comprehensively and directly the information is presented.

1. HOW TO WRITE
Maisara Abou-Rady
A TECHNICAL
REPORT

2. WHO
AM I..?!
I’m
Maisara
Abou-Rady
Class 2018
Electronics and Communications
Department

3. WHAT
ARE WE
HERE FOR?!
 Discuss how to write a Technical Report.
 Design its structure
 Fill-in the contents
 Nearly all of you already can.
 Neither art nor science, but experience.

4. EXPERIENCE
 E-WEB Publications Committee in 2012 – 2014
 IEEE AlexSB Reporting and Publications Committee in 2013 – 2014
 E-WEB Secretary in 2013 – 2014
 EED 2016 Contents Team in 2016

5. So, what’s a technical
report? Why do we
need it anyway?

6. To DELIVER
REQUESTED information
Many companies, in addition to academia, use reports in
communicating information
because reports are
a RELIABLE source of needed information.

7. PRINCIPLE
Be Target
Oriented..!

8. TO ENGINEER THE REPORT:
1.Specify the requested information
2. Satisfy the requests in:
 Contents
 Style

9. HOW TO SATISFY
CONTENT REQUIREMENTS?
1. Simulate the reader – what does
they want to know? Brainstorm the
questions.
2. Set the right order – the logical sequence
of information

10. HOW TO SATISFY
CONTENT REQUIREMENTS?
Such questions provide the report structure.
3. Answer these questions
Such answers are the report content.

11. HOW TO SIMULATE THE READER?
 Who they are?
 What do they need the report for?
 How would they like this report to be?
 What exactly do they need to know?

12. HOW TO SATISFY
STYLE REQUIREMENTS?
Report characteristics to consider when you
answer those questions:
1. Comprehensive
2. To-the-point

13. TO JUDGE A REPORT’S QUALITY
1. Very clear goal
2. Well-organized Structure
3. Well-sequenced information
4. Comprehensive
5. To-the-point

14. TO SUM UP THE PROCEDURE
1. Specify the content requirements
1. Simulate the reader and brainstorm
questions
2. Order them
3. Answer them, considering the style
characteristics

15. DOCUMENT ADDITIVES
1. Abstract
2. TOC
3. Introduction

16. DEMO

17. DISCUSSION
Comment, share experience, ask
questions.