TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Pingus Penguins: Writing Good Instructions
Students use the free computer game Pingus to learn how engineers, specifically environmental engineers, use their technical writing skills to give instructions and follow the instructions of others. Students learn to write instructions...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Get the Word Out at Mc Donalds!
Students take part in a hypothetical scenario that challenges them to inform customers at a local restaurant of how their use and disposal of plastics relates/contributes to the Great Pacific garbage patch (GPGP). What students...
Other
Sharpening Your Writing Skills
This handbook provides step-by-step modules to help you develop an appropriate business writing style. It also gives you rules for punctuation and "plain English." Answers are provided for exercises. PDF document.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Writing for a North American Business Audience
This lesson gives guidelines for business writing in Western (North American) culture. From Purdue University.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Purdue University: Tone in Business Writing
Excellent resource for those interested in professional, business, or technical writing. Gives definition, uses, and guidelines for the element of tone in a written work.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Revision in Business Writing
Persuades the reader of the importance of revision, and outlines the process of good revision: language, tone, organization, and correctness.
Cynthia J. O'Hora
Mrs. O's House: A Dickens of a Resume
While studying Charles Dickens' novel, "A Christmas Carol," students can work on their writing skills by creating a resume of the characters in the book.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Technical Reading and Writing Using Board Games
Contains plans for a game that helps teach technical reading and writing while reviewing a novel that students have read. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as...
Letter Writing Guide
Sample Interview Thank You Letter
This informational site provides a well-written thank you letter exemplar. This example of a thank you letter is intended as a follow-up to an interview.
Grammar Check
Grammar Check: Effective Resume Writing Tips (Infographic)
An infographic is provided to help students with writing resumes. Students will learn common resume mistakes, different types of resumes, and the importance of resumes.
Colorado State University
Colorado State Writing Center: Writing the Scientific Paper
A guide to the world of writing in the scientific field. Includes information about scientific-format papers, abstracts, hypotheses and results, and provides several examples.
Other
Designing a Readable User Manual
An article with information and strategies for technical document writing. More article under "Resources".
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: 8.1: Business Documents
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn to write for business by understanding style and learning about formatting different documents such as business letters, statements of purpose, resumes, cover...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: High Order Concerns (Ho Cs) for Business Writing
A great reference when writing business messages or letters. Discusses the most important issues involved in business writing and an organizational system for them.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Parallel Structure in Professional Writing
A good reference to consider when writing professionally (as in business/technical writing). Includes brief structural examples.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Snail Mail or E Mail Blast!
Students will use business letters and email to recruit professional members for the Career Technical Student Organization (CTSO) using the Chamber of Commerce member listing. This lesson plan is targeted toward Future Business Leaders...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Do You Know How?
Students will write in a technical genre. "Technical writing conveys specific information about a technical subject to a specific audience for a specific purpose. The words and graphics of technical writing are meant to be practical:...
Other
Writing for Business and Pleasure: Eliminate Wordiness to Write With Power
This how-to site gives writing tips for business writing. Brief explanations are provided for how to revise writing to ensure that redundant pairs, redundant modifiers, redundance categories, meaningless modifiers, and wordy expressions...
Letter Writing Guide
How to Write a Business Letter
This student-friendly site contains the purpose of business letter writing. In addition, the article discusses the elements of good business letter writing.
Letter Writing Guide
How to Write an Appeal Letter
This student and teacher-friendly site contains the purpose surrounding a letter of appeal. In addition, the article discusses the elements of good business letter writing.
Letter Writing Guide
Sample Letter of Appeal
This informational site provides a well-written letter of appeal exemplar.
Letter Writing Guide
How to Write a Farewell Letter to Your Co Workers
This student and teacher-friendly site discusses the tone that should be established in a farewell letter to an employer. In addition, the article discusses the elements of good farewell letter.
Letter Writing Guide
Sample Farewell Letter
This informational site provides a well-written farewell letter exemplar.
Letter Writing Guide
How to Write a Reference Letter
This student and teacher-friendly site explains the following: what a reference letter is; how to self-assess whether one should write the letter of reference; when to write a letter of reference; and what to say in a letter of reference.