Writing Matters: Mehran Sahami, Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University

This video is for the ones that want to study computer science. This guy is going to tell you what you need to hear for this class.

Writing Matters: Christopher Edwards, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University

I like this video a lot, it tells you why we- the engineers- write, how we do it and when to do it. It is a complete video that is worth to watch. This guy make it seems really easy, is it for you?

Well, now as you can see I am putting stuff on this blogg that will help you in any circumstances in your English class. Now this post is giving you examples, videos of how some of my freshmen friends that are taking this class did their Stage 5.

Good Writing at utpa English 1301

English 1301 Project

Writing Center

University Writing Center

The University Writing Center (UWC) offers UTPA faculty and students assistance with academic writing in all disciplines. Peer tutors, certified by the College Reading and Learning Association, assist students in meeting class writing assignment requirements. Other components housed within the UWC are a faculty-reserved computer classroom and the UTPA Writing Across the Curriculum Program.
Individual Tutoring for all Academic Areas Peer tutorials* provide assistance with essay writing in the following ways:

• Clarification of an assignment
• Drafting from ideas, notes, and outlines
• Revision and editing for effective sentence structure
• Creating appropriate writer's voice and tone
• Identification of errors and methods for correction
• Assistance with all documentation styles
• Assistance with incorporating source material

*Peer tutoring is a system based on qualified students teaching other students.
Tutorials:

• No appointment is necessary.
• Assignment requirements, textbooks, and class notes should be brought to the tutorial.
• Student should allow time for several tutorials before an assignment is due.

Location & Hours

Location, Use, and Hours of Operation

The UWC is located on the first floor, east side of the University Library.

UWC Hours:

Fall and Spring Terms:
Monday	8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Tuesday	8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Wednesday	8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Thursday	8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Friday	8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Summer Sessions:
Monday-Thursday	8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Friday	8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Extended Graduate Hours:
Monday	6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Tuesday	6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Wednesday	6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Thursday	6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

The Writing Center consists of three areas: a computer lab classroom, an individual tutorial area, and a multi-use area for training and Writing Across the Curriculum faculty activities . The computer lab has thirty state-of-the-art computers available for student drop-in use, or the lab may be reserved in advance by a professor. Occasionally, workshops are held in the computer classroom. While the tutorial area of the UWC offers nine additional computers for students to use, the main tutorial area also provides tables where tutors work face-to-face with individual students. All students may use the center on a drop-in basis, no appointment necessary. Tutor consultations are provided free of charge.
UWC Location: University Library, Suite 101
Telephone: 665-2538

Writing in Engineering

Im going to give you a link that helped me a lot while doing my Stage 4 for my remidial 1301/1320 English class. My Stage 4 was about how does rhetorical writing can help me with my engineering career? This database helped me a lot while doing it and I hope it works as well as it did for me.

The Purdue OWL: Writinging in Engineering.

50 Tips of How to Write Good by Mark Nichol

50 Tips on How to Write Good

I liked this 50 tips of how to write good, some are fun, somo are not. Here they are, hope you like it.

 The contents of this post are an alphabetical arrangement of two lists that have been circulating among writers and editors for many years. In case you have missed out all this time, I’m sharing here the wit and wisdom of the late New York Times language maven William Safire and advertising executive and copywriter Frank LaPosta Visco.

 1. A writer must not shift your point of view.
2. Always pick on the correct idiom.
3. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
4. Always be sure to finish what
5. Avoid alliteration. Always.
6. Avoid archaeic spellings.
7. Avoid clichés like the plague. (They’re old hat.)
8. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.
9. Be more or less specific.
10. Comparisons are as bad as clichés.
11. Contractions aren’t necessary.
12. Do not use hyperbole; not one in a million can do it effectively.
13. Don’t indulge in sesquipedalian lexicological constructions.
14. Don’t never use no double negatives.
15. Don’t overuse exclamation marks!!
16. Don’t repeat yourself, or say again what you have said before.
17. Don’t use commas, that, are not, necessary.
18. Don’t be redundant; don’t use more words than necessary; it’s highly superfluous.
19. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
20. Employ the vernacular.
21. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
22. Eschew obfuscation.
23. Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
24. Everyone should be careful to use a singular pronoun with singular nouns in their writing.
25. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
26. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
27. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
28. Hopefully, you will use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them.
29. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.
30. If you reread your work, you can find on rereading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing.
31. It behooves you to avoid archaic expressions.
32. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
33. Never use a big word when a diminutive alternative would suffice.
34. No sentence fragments.
35. One should never generalize.
36. One-word sentences? Eliminate.
37. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
38. Parenthetical words however must be enclosed in commas.
39. Place pronouns as close as possible, especially in long sentences, as of ten or more words, to their antecedents.
40. Placing a comma between subject and predicate, is not correct.
41. Poofread carefully to see if you any words out.
42. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
43. Profanity sucks.
44. Subject and verb always has to agree.
45. Take the bull by the hand and avoid mixing metaphors.
46. The adverb always follows the verb.
47. The passive voice is to be avoided.
48. Understatement is always best.
49. Use the apostrophe in it’s proper place and omit it when its not needed.
50. Use youre spell chekker to avoid mispeling and to catch typograhpical errers.
51. Who needs rhetorical questions?
52. Writing carefully, dangling participles must be avoided.
Oh, and let me add one tip: If your article consists of a list and the title refers to the number of items in the list, count the number of items in the list carefully.

Good Writing.

Here in this link is a little description about what good writing is. Hope it helps you do your stage 1 or solve the answer (what is good writing?) if need it.

http://www.ttms.org/writing_quality/writing_quality.htm