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Patrick Fitzhorn, Mechanical Engineering
: Even technical papers that we have the seniors do, they're structured as technical papers and look just like my journal articles. Title, abstract, development of the problem, importance of the problem, research, other's work associated with the problem, development of the paper content, etc. Exactly what the senior's papers look like.
On the ways our own professional experience can help us teach writing:
Dave Alciatore, Mechanical Engineering
: These "rules" [for adapting format and style] are field specific.Patrick Fitzhorn
: Reputation has a lot to do with this. You have to know who the author is and why he/she is writing in a particular style. In some fields of engineering, writing styles have evolved around the context of that engineering domain. For example, in behavior based robotics, they're trying to build analogies between living creatives and how we want robots to act.