Staff and Faculty Resources

Faculty Referral Form
The "faculty referral form" is to make it simple to refer students to the TCC, with the faculty's concerns for the students in mind.

Responding to Student Writing
The "Responding to Student Writing" handout is a handy reminder/review of how to do so effectively.

Writing Proposals
Project Proposal planning worksheet
"Writing Proposals" is a concise power point that faculty may want to pass on to their students when they begin this process.

Rubistar For Teachers
This is a great resource for quickly making rubrics when time to do so is at a minimum.

Netiquette presentation
Creative and entertaining power point presentation on email etiquette

Useful Websites

Preventing Plagiarism

Making Plagiarism-Proof Assignments
Colorado State University's suggestions for creating "Plagiarism Proof Assignments," including 3 main points for making the writing assignments.

Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers
Thorough information concerning "awareness, prevention and detection" of plagiarism.

Designing Plagiarism-proof Assignments
From the "Center for Teaching and Learning," this site offers specific "anti-plagiarism strategies for research papers."

Writing in Engineering

Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students
This is an excellent and thorough website by lead editor Michael Alley from Penn State University to which you may refer students for "advice, models and exercises" and much more helpful information for good writing.

Lab Reports

Lab Write 
An excellent and thorough site called "LabWrite" from North Carolina State University and endorsed by NSF. It contains pre-lab, in-lab, post-lab and lab-check sections and is useful for all students, lab instructors, and professors.

MEEN 364 Lab Report Format
This is a clearly-written model of a lab report from MEEN 364 (TAMU), which was revised by Ahmed Saeed in 2007.

Electrical Lab Reports
An Electrical Engineering general format for labs from the writing center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

How to Write a Good Unit Operation Laboratory Report
The Chemical Engineering Department of the University of Illinois, Chicago, offers a format for "How to Write a Good Unit Operation Lab Report."


Workshops

English Bites Series

A Lunchtime Look Past the Perfect Tense

What We Have in Comma

Mighty Coffee and Strong Rivers - Collocation 

Technical Communications Center

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Contact Technical Communications Center

Technical Communications Center

Texas A&M Engineering Building, Education City
PO Box 23874, Doha, Qatar
974.423.0022
tcc@qatar.tamu.edu

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