CHEC: Cornell Help for Engineering Communication
Writing, Presenting, and more
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About CHEC
Writing
Abstracts
Introductions and Backgrounds
Literature Reviews
Paragraphing
Presenting
Presentation Slides: Use sentence headers
Presentation Slides: Avoid bullets
Communicating and Teams
Faculty Resources
Student Resources
Teams: Engineering Communication Program Expertise
Using Sources
APA Citation Format
APA In-text Citations
APA Reference Page Entries
IEEE Citation Format
IEEE In-text Citations
IEEE Reference Page Entries
JFM Citation Format
JFM In-text Citations
JFM Reference Page Entries
Tech and Science Details
Numbers and Equations in Writing
Units of Measurement
Visuals
Captions for Figures in Documents
Bar Charts
Punctuation
The Seven Basic Punctuation Formulas
Semicolons (not in lists)
Serial Comma/ Oxford Comma
Introductory commas
Quote marks, double and single
Editing and Proofreading
Contents
Numbers and Equations
Units of Measurement