Microsoft Word remote sensing-booklet doc

Reference Material:  
 
1.  Bailey and Lundgaard, Program Design with Pseudo-code, Brooks/Cole 
Publishing,  

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2.  Lesley Anne Robertson, Simple Program Design: A step-by-step 
approach, Course Technology, 2000 
3.  Larry Long and Nancy Long, Computers: Information Technology in 
Perspective, 9
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Schneider and Gersting, An Invitation to Computer Science, 
Brooks/Cole Thomson Learning, 2000 
5. Sherer, Computer Science: An overview of Computer Science,  
 
 
 
5:
     
Technical and Business Writing (Elective)
 
Course Structure: Lectures: 3 / 
Labs: 0 
Credit Hours: 3 
Prerequisites: None 
Objectives: To develop efficient literature survey, analysis, report writing 
and document designing skills. 
Course Outline: Overview of technical reporting, use of library and 
information gathering, administering questionnaires, reviewing the 
gathered information. Technical exposition; topical arrangement, 
exemplification, definition, classification and division, casual analysis, 
effective exposition, technical narration, description and argumentation, 
persuasive strategy. Organizing information and generation solution: 
brainstorming, organizing material, construction of the formal outline, 
outlining conventions, electronic communication, generation solutions. 
Polishing style: paragraphs, listening sentence structure, clarity, length and 
order, pomposity, empty words, pompous vocabulary, document design: 
document structure, preamble, summaries, abstracts, table of contents, 
footnotes, glossaries, cross-referencing, plagiarism, citation and 
bibliography, glossaries, index, appendices, typesetting systems, creating 
the professional report; elements, mechanical elements and graphical 
elements. Reports: Proposals, progress reports, Leaflets, brochures, 
handbooks, magazines articles, research papers, feasibility reports, project 
reports, technical research reports, manuals and documentation, thesis. 
Electronic documents, Linear verses hierarchical structure documents.