Collin County Community College District

Sentence Corrections

Technical Writing Class

Cost estimates are a technical document that is very important to our business.

Sentence Corrections

This estimate simply estimates the cost to physically build the project, which is our educated guess to what the contractors will bid on the project.

Wordiness

All of the documents are done right there at the station rather than being sent all the way downtown.

Wordiness

He said there are some times when not enough computers are accessible at the time.

Wordiness

Most of the emails he sends are usually not that long about a paragraph or two.

Due to

Communication is kept to a minimum due to the fact we are a seven-person firm.

Miscellaneous

Usually these reports are very long in length.

Sentence Rewrites

Which is a major because if anyone has a problem with a project they have to be able to get a hold of him to check on it.

Singular/Plural

These documents are worded very technical and describe property boundaries I high detail.

Sentence Improvements

He uses power point and other means of projection.

Capitalization

They also use a great deal of ms word, and power point for a design or product.

Sentence Corrections

The length of a document depends on what happen, for instance, if there was a really big fire than there will be more to write which will make for longer report.

Essential/Nonessential Clauses

He has spend several long hours adding a frequently asked question page that is all inclusive. and includes troubleshooting assistance to the customer.

Parallel Structure

Emails are used back and forth with co-workers, friends and business memos.

Parallel Structure

Writing allows us to have record of a past patient, keep in touch with our referral clinics, and allows us to stay aware of new products and scientific findings.

Hyphens

Periodicals are an excellent source of up to date information.

Use of Quotes

To wrap this paper up I asked “does a great deal of collaboration come with a mechanical engineering degree.”

Acronyms

At the Wireless Network Operations Center we utilize these tools intensely. In a network environment minutes wasted looking for the right materials to get a site or piece of equipment operational could mean thousands of dollars, or thousands of customers lost to the competitors . . . . Things in the NOC move very fast.

Acronyms

The MM&P is the equivalent of an operations bible.

Sentence Corrections

They are members of several professional organizations such as IEEE, (Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers) this is a networking out let and also includes a magazine subscription that has the latest developments in the field.

Acronyms

All the Personal Computers (PC’s) on the network have Microsoft Office installed.

Comma Splice

If an E-mail is too short it may confuse people, if it is long-winded it will quickly find it’s way to the “To read when I have 2 hours to kill” folder.

Sentence Corrections

He uses e-mails for many of these writing tasks yet sometimes an old fashion letter is still essential.

Fragments

There were all the briefs of different cases and having to put so much information into what is described by the name, a brief. Summaries of the actions that had taken place, or are going to take place in the court.

Sentences

A few types of documents that they have to do are: memos, incidents reports, directives, policy procedures, training lessons, and apparatus specifications.

Subject Verb Agreement

His email program and server is inter-connected with the City’s server.

Sentence Corrections

A white paper list problems and ways to solve the problems and recommends which solution that would be most economical and beneficial for the company.

Sentence Corrections

Only a limited number of people actually uses it.

Passive Voice

There are actually many memos and reports that are documented throughout the station by many of the fire fighters.

Sentence Corrections

They use spreadsheets, excel, and word to help them document different forms of reports and different personnel issues.