Overview
| Type: | Training manual |
| Format: | .pdf file |
| Length: | 49 pages |
| Subject: | Chemistry |
| Audience: | Undergraduate chemistry students |
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Project Description
Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy contains standard operating procedures (SOPs) for using a 400 MHz Bruker NMR spectrometer in a university laboratory setting. It also includes laboratory safety guidelines and instructions for using TopSpin 3.2 NMR software to conduct proton and carbon-13 NMR experiments.
This document was created to fulfill the requirements for Simon Fraser University's TCOM410: Final Project – Technical Communication Guided Practicum course. In TCOM410, students were required to apply the concepts they learned from prerequisite courses to plan, design, and produce a documentation product for a client. My client, a chemistry instructor at the University of Winnipeg, requested an NMR spectroscopy training manual for students enrolled in an advanced organic chemistry course.
Before writing this document, I created a documentation project plan and Gantt chart to plan its contents, budget, and schedule. By the end of the course, I learned how to manage tasks in each phase of the documentation development process, including identifying the project scope, coordinating with subject-matter experts (SMEs), and testing documentation usability.
