• Browse by author or year: http://cs-tr.cs.rice.edu/Dienst/UI/2.0/ListPublishers
• Browse by year: http://cs-tr.cs.rice.edu:80/Dienst/UI/2.0/BrowseYears?authority=ncstrl.rice_cs
• Reports from 2002: 2002 reports
• Reports from 2001: 2001 reports

• "Ten Ways to Improve Your Technical Writing", by Robert Bly
• The Twelve-Step Program for Better IT Writing, by David Shwalb
• The Mayfield Handbook of Technical and Scientific Writing, by Perelman, Paradis, and Barrett
  also, see the table of contents and the writing timeline
  • Strive for:Accuracy, Clarity , Conciseness , Coherence , and Appropriateness
  • Know your document's Purpose ; it's Explicit Purposes
  • The Problem Statement
  • Organize your planning and writing , developing a detailed outline
  • Editing for grammar and style
  • Some ways to "tighten up" your prose:
    1. Make your paragraphs coherent. If necessary, rearrange sentences for better paragraph flow and logic.
    2. Use the active voice whenever the passive voice is not clearly more appropriate.
       • Passive and Active Voice
    3. Eliminate unnecessary words and phrases.
    4. Simplify your sentences. Break long sentences into manageable units.
    5. Condense repetitious or closely related material. Look for ways to combine or delete words and sentences that repeat information.
    6. Be specific. Replace vague phrases and words with more descriptive ones.
    7. Use words accurately. Look for phrases and words that don't stand up to scrutiny.
  • Structure of Your Paper: Elements of Technical Documents
    • Front Matter
      • Title page , Abstract , Table of contents , List of figures ,
        List of tables , List of terms , Acknowledgments
    • Body
      • Introduction , Background , Theory , Design criteria ,
        Materials and apparatus , Procedure , Workplan , Results ,
        Discussion , Conclusion , Recommendations
    • End matter : References, Appendixes, Index
  • Graphs and Figures
    • Reasons for using graphics , Common graphics ,
      General guidelines for graphics
    • Graphics commonly used in technical documents include the following:
      working drawings , tables , bar graphs , line graphs , pie graphs ,
      illustrations , diagrams , photographs , exploded views , schematic diagrams ,
      flowcharts , timetables or Gantt charts
• "Scrutiny of the Introduction", and the importance of the Abstract,
  and: "After the Introduction" - use of the personal pronound "I"
• "The Passive in Technical and Scientific Writing"
  and see: (Same article, Cambridge Language link)

Writing a technical paper, report preparation general guidelines:

Cover page, abstract, table of contents, table of figures, table of tables, introduction, experimental data, sample calculations and results, discussion, analysis, references and appendices.

http://www.aspire.cs.uah.edu/textbook/projdev2012.html

Report guidelines:

Cover page, abstract, introduction and background, problem statement, controller design, summary of results and conclusions, bibliography, appendices.

An Overview of Project Development from ASPIRE:
http://www.aspire.cs.uah.edu/textbook/unit2.html

Also see ASPIRE's (Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville) Computational Science Textbook:
http://www.aspire.cs.uah.edu/textbook/

The components of the technical paper are:

Title page, table of contents, abstract, introduction , problem definition, method of solution, results and discussion, conclusions and further research, works cited, bibliography, appendix.

http://www.krellinst.org/AiS/textbook/manual/lplans/unit2/lp_projdev2.4.1.html