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5e Lesson Plan Technical Writing

This lesson plan trains project managers and above on technical writing skills. It uses a 5E instructional model of engage, explore, explain, elaborate, and evaluate. Trainees will learn to identify and eliminate redundant words, filler words, and verbose language. They will examine examples, rewrite sentences, and complete a challenge in Socrative to test their skills. The trainer will provide feedback and the goal is improved writing will lead to fewer lost projects and less rework.

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5e Lesson Plan Technical Writing

This lesson plan trains project managers and above on technical writing skills. It uses a 5E instructional model of engage, explore, explain, elaborate, and evaluate. Trainees will learn to identify and eliminate redundant words, filler words, and verbose language. They will examine examples, rewrite sentences, and complete a challenge in Socrative to test their skills. The trainer will provide feedback and the goal is improved writing will lead to fewer lost projects and less rework.

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5E Lesson Plan

Trainer: Learning & Development Trainers and Senior Technical Writier (SME)
Date: Week 3
Subject/ Audience: Technical Writing- New Hire Project Managers and above
Materials: Computer or tablet with internet with speakers/ headphones.
Instructor needs: Socrative and Webex accounts as well.
Technology Implemented: The challenge at the end of this lesson was supposed to be completed then emailed back into
Learning & Development and they would send to the SME to review. I created the challenge in Socrative this time. This
saves time for the trainees as well as the trainers and the SME and that means more trainees will complete it.. It also
helps with those who have trouble using Word or typing in PDFs as it all is completed in Socrative which is more
straightforward with formatting.

Lesson objective(s):
- Student will learn to write clearly and concisely
- Students will learn how to identify and eliminate
 Redundant words and phrases
 Filler words
 Verbose language

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs:

ENGAGEMENT (5 minutes)
 Describe how the teacher will capture students’ interest. While people are signing on the trainer ask the students to write their
favorite fruit on the white board. Not only does this get them warming up but it allows them to get used to the
Webex platform they will be using in lesson. The SME will introduce herself and the problem at hand- poor
writing results in loss of work, time spent on rework, and inconsistent writing for company’s brand.
 What kind of questions/activities should the students ask themselves after the engagement? How many projects do you think we lost
due to poor writing? Do you think this affects contracts and scopes of work? If so, what additional problems could
arise from unclear writing? Why is it important to write consistently according to the brand of the company?

EXPLORATION (5 minutes)
 Describe what hands-on/minds-on activities students will be doing. In today’s lesson, we will be examining real-life examples of
writing from our company. We will ask you to rewrite the sentences using the techniques used from each lesson.
 List “big idea” conceptual questions the teacher will use to encourage and/or focus students’ exploration. Ask students to review the
following sentence and chat in what they think is wrong with the sentence.

“Be prepared to answer contractor-generated questions or questions by other attendees that may require
additional clarification or further discussion, particularly in regard to coordination of inspection staff,
administrative information, or documentation issues.” They should come up with it is unnecessarily long, wordy,
and redundant.

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EXPLANATION (10 minutes)


 Student explanations should precede introduction of terms or explanations by the teacher. What questions or techniques will the teacher use to help
students connect their exploration to the concept under examination? Next, the instructors show the students how to break down
the complex sentences into parts.

Part 1. Be prepared to answer contractor-generated questions or questions by other attendees


Part 2. that may require additional clarification or further discussion
Part 3. particularly in regard to inspection staff, administrative information, or documentation issues

Next, we showed them how to make it simple.

Part 1. Be prepared to answer contractor questions


Part 2. that may require clarification
Part 3. particularly regarding inspection staff, administrative information, or documentation issues

 List higher order thinking questions which teachers will use to solicit student explanations and help them to justify their explanations. Next,
we
show them examples of redundant sentences, filler words, and verbose language and ask them to point out the
cases they are used in the example sentences. Students are then showed rewritten sentences with the
redundancies, filler words, and wordy language removed.

ELABORATION (30 minutes)


 Describe how students will develop a more sophisticated understanding of the concept. At the stage in the training, the students are
asked to complete the first activity which is to review the sentence that is on their screen and in their workbook.
They are given a few minutes to fix the sentence and then type it onto the whiteboard in Webex. They have
three activities to complete in all, in each of the respective areas of the lesson, redundancy, filler words, and
verbose language.
 Enhancing retention and transfer. In Socrative, I created a challenge for them to complete after the training. They
must rewrite 7 sentences using the techniques they learned in this training. If completed correctly, they are given
a gift card.

EVALUATION (Ongoing)
 As the sentences are typed in the SME is given verbal feedback. Praising those who have simplified the
sentence and in some cases even more than her corrections, and giving constructive feedback to those who
need a little more help.
 Correct completion of challenge.
 Long term results: Rise in winning projects, less rework, and less edits needed from technical writers.
 One on One training available if needed.

UDL CONNECTIONS
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STANDARDS
AECT Standards
2.03, 4.03

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