The print and online resources below provide guidelines and examples for all sorts of communication-related topics relevant to the sciences and engineering. If you know of any good resources that should be included on this list but are not, please e-mail us and let us know.

• MSU-College of Engineering Online Technical Writing Center
• Purdue University OWL
• Dakota State University OWL
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Online Writing Center
• The Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing at Ohio State

• ECE Writing Resource Center - Although this site is specific to electrical and computer engineering, its excellent suggestions and examples are useful for any technical writer.
• Resources for Teaching Writing in Engineering and Science - Hosted by Virginia Tech, this site contains a wealth strategies, resources, and exercises for tech writing teachers (though students could certainly benefit from this information too).
• ECE Laboratory Report Common Policy Document - This is the information page for students submitting lab reports in ECE labs.
• Online Technical Writing: Examples, Cases, & Models: Index - This site contains numerous examples of all types of technical writing.
• Computer Science Publications Page - MSU's computer science and engineering department has developed this page as a repository of faculty- and student-authored documents as well as a guide to lab report formats and the Turabian style manual.
• MSU Graduate School Guidelines for Theses and Dissertations - Just what it says!
• Mike Markel's Technical Communication - This is the companion site for the major textbook used in GE 3513.
• "The Science of Scientific Writing" (Gopen and Swan) - This superb article is required reading for GE 3513.
• Dave Custer's Technical Writing Sites - Custer is an instructor at MIT. This page has an incredible amount of useful information, suggestions, and examples, as well as links to syllabi for several of Custer's classes.
• EPSCoR Proposal for a Drop Test Facility - This proposal is linked through Custer's site above. Though not flawless, it provides several good topics for discussion on proposal writing.
• Engineering Information Compendex Web - This searchable database contains an enormous amount of abstracts and downloadable articles devoted exclusively to engineering topics.
• IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication - The online companion to the journal noted above includes indexed abstracts for all 1997-1999 issues.
• Strunk and White's The Elements of Style - One of the classic style and usage manuals. (It's also a genuinely funny book.)
• Technical Communicator's Manual - This extremely useful site was developed as part of the Technical Communication Program in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Texas-Austin.

NOTE: To borrow any of the titles below, contact us at 325-1493 or at tcp@engr.msstate.edu.

• Gerald J. Alred, Charles T. Brusaw, and Walter E. Oliu, Handbook of Technical Writing, 5th edition (1998)
• Robert Barrass, Scientists Must Write (1978)
• Gary Blake and Robert W. Bly, The Elements of Technical Writing (1993)
• Paul Dombrowski, Ethics in Technical Communication (2000)
• Laura J. Gurak, Oral Presentations for Technical Communication (2000)
• Kenneth W. Houp, Thomas E. Pearsall, Elizabeth Tebeaux, Reporting Technical Information, 9th edition (1998), 3 copies
• Dan Jones, Technical Writing Style (1998)
• Dan Jones, The Technical Communicator's Handbook (2000)
• R. A. O. Kleidon, Technical Reports: A Guide to Style, Form and Documentation (1998)
• Teresa C. Kynell and Wendy Krieg Stone, Scenarios for Technical Communication: Critical Thinking and Writing (1999)
• Mike Markell, Technical Communication: Situations and Strategies, 5th edition (1998)
• Nell Ann Pickett, Ann A. Laster, and Katherine E. Staples, Technical English: Writing, Reading, and Speaking, 8th edition (2001)
• Mike W. Martin and Roland Schinzinger, Ethics in Engineering, 3rd edition (1996), 3 copies
• Diana C. Reep, Technical Writing: Principles, Strategies, and Readings, 4th edition (2000)
• Society for Technical Communication, Strategies for Technical Communication: A Collection of Teaching Tips (1994)
• William Strunk and E. B. White, The Elements of Style, 4th edition (2000), 2 copies
• Dorothy Winsor, Writing Like an Engineer: A Rhetorical Education (1996)

Call numbers T10.5 .M3 through T11.W65 1990 in the MSU Library consist mostly of circulating books devoted to technical communication and related topics.

• Charles T. Brusaw, Handbook of Technical Writing (REF T11 .B78 1997) and The Concise Handbook for Technical Writing (REF T11 .B78 1996x) - These provide exhaustive coverage of all aspects of technical writing but are especially useful for matters of grammar and usage. The first title is an old edition of one of the textbooks for GE 3513.
• IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication and Journal of Technical Writing and Communication (Current and Bound Journals) - These journals contain articles, book reviews, and bibliographies devoted to engineering-related communication issues.