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Faculty of Engineering

Since authors of a Technical Report have often worked on their project for weeks or months, they
can hardly imagine how much (or better: how little) a normal reader of the report can know about

the project at all, when they start to write the report in the last phase of the project.
Therefore, in Technical Reports too much detailed knowledge is supposed very often, which the

addressees do not have.

This overstrains the readers of the report quite frequently, and their motivation to read the report

is negatively influenced.

In addition, after frequent reading of own texts authors tend to become blinded by routine against
their own formulations.

Therefore, during the end check of the Technical Report you should show it a friend or colleague,

so that he/she can proof whether the report is understandable for people who have not been
involved in the project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twc2S88zuGo

1.4 Typography and Writing )ةباتكلاو ةعابطلا(

Typography is the art and science of arranging text in a way that makes reading easy and enjoyable.

It includes selecting the typeface, its size, and the spacing between letters and lines. The main

goals of typography are to improve text clarity, facilitate reading and comprehension, and give the
document a professional appearance
.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8Qs_n_w_ro

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