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It gives immense pleasure to inform that Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering , SIET, Vijayapura, is organizing a workshop in association with IETE and ISTE on “Procedural Writing and Publishing with Advanced Computer Tools: Hands-On Training”. The proposed workshop is being organized as competence in technical writing holds great importance in the present era. Procedural/Technical writing deals with specific knowledge, generally in the sphere of science and technology, and may be used in a wide variety of media: journal papers, thesis, project proposals, and other technical documents. Hence, to accomplish these goals two important advance computer tools such as MS word and LaTex document typesetting systems are used to produce high quality scientific documents, like articles, books, dissertations, technical reports, etc.
The objectives of the workshop is
1. To provide new users with the essential skills needed to create, edit and print professional looking documents using text, tables, lists and pictures as well as covering simple mail merge. Particular emphasis is placed on developing accurate and well-designed documents.
2. To Expertise in drafting technical documents is an indispensable skill for all professionals for it helps them to share their knowledge of technical subjects effectively in all domains of society and thus makes them competent in their professional careers.
3. Real time collaborative writing and publishing.
In addition, Drawing, Data Analysis and Graphing Software will be covered for making high quality figures and diagrams. The sessions by experts will focus on topics like innovative methods for enhancing one’s technical writing skills, use of technical terminology for information transfer, satisfying document specifications like style and format, page layout and organizational structure,