... informal). Documenting one’s research isan essential part of research in that the discipline of writing is, initself, part of the creative process and often leads to new ideas.Documentation ... University of Washington, University of Massachusetts, and University of Hawaii are just some of these(Marsh, 1998; Plumb and Scott, 2000; Poli, 1996; Nojima, 1998).At the University of California ... all of which may require different skills and levels of ex-pertise. Although the amount of communication output varies bythe branch of engineering, written communication includes shortdocuments...