When you are ready to begin writing your research paper, pick one
section (approximately four paragraphs) to start writing first. One strategy is to pick the section that you are
most ready to write and begin with that one.
In technical writing, very often this section will be a technical description (Chapter 1 in the textbook) or a process explanation (Chapter 2) since these types of writing are basic to most topics and you can usually find sources for them.
Use the “Match and Mix” writing process that we tried earlier this semester with the "Google Street View" assignment. You do this by finding
two or more sources on the same sub-topic (that's the "Match" part) and then writing your own version that is a "Mix" of the
sources and your own wordings.
If you would like this part of your paper to stand on its own
as a Technical Report, you can add a title and headings to it. You can even create a webpage from it by converting it
to html format.
Here are some sample reports from former English II students:
