1. Deciphering Technical Readings – aka, what the heck does all this mean
Deciphering Technical Readings – aka, what the heck does all this mean? Objective: Read, comprehend and interpret technical materials and publications.
By: Mrs. J. Pressett

2. Understanding Technical Readings
Techniques for Understanding
Ask and answer – in general what is this talking about?
Replace hard words with synonyms
Look for graphs and pictures to help illustrate difficult and wordy passages

3. Scientific Reports – A type of technical reading
Summarize an experiment and results
Peer Reviewed
More reliable than a Google Search of Science Fair Experiments
Anyone can get published on the internet, but it takes skill and qualifications to have information published in a technical paper.
Technical readings and publications have been peer reviewed. This means that professionals within the same field have checked the work before it was published.

4. Scientific Report Formatting – Section 1
Technical readings have similar sections.
The first section is the Abstract which is a summary.
This is a nice tool to help you determine if you want to read a long paper.

5. Section 2 and 3 Introduction
Tells potential applications of study results
Explains importance of the information
Methods
Like a recipe card. Explains the materials and steps needed to reproduce the experiment.

6. Sections 4 and 5
Results
Explains the results of the experiment. Often displayed in graphs and charts.
Conclusion /Discussion
Researchers discuss what may have impacted or changed the results.

7. Other Sections Literature Review
A summary of other studies or related publications