Writing Your Objectives

Reference Davies, Ivor K., Industrial Technique, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1981. 

Conduct weekly inspections with emphasis on good housekeeping, proper use of personal protective equipment (PPE), condition of critical parts of equipment, and preventive maintenance Determine the root cause analysis of any incident in 24 hours Create a written system for documenting all incidents and near misses (loss-producing events) and all subsequent investigations and corrective actions 

Eliminate any hazard(s) identified during incident investigations within 24 hours 

Complete one job hazard analysis each month in each department, with follow-up revision of safe work procedures and employee training the following month 

Conduct and evaluate emergency drills for severe weather, including tornadoes and earthquakes (where appropriate), every 6 months Conduct a joint fire drill/evacuation with local emergency organizations every year [2] 

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When writing your objectives you must state in specific measurable terms what is to be achieved and what resources should be included for accomplishing the task. Try to keep the objective concrete and measurable. At a later time, you will need to be able to determine if the objective has been achieved [2]. 

TAKE A METER stick and measure five objects in meters. Write your answers to two decimal places. For instance, you might find that your television remote control is 0.18 meters long and your bed is 1.72 meters long. Save these measurements-we ll use them in a little while ... 

When you make observations you should examine the entire object or situation first, and then look carefully for details. It is important to record observations accurately and completely. Always record your notes immediately as you make them, so you do not miss details or make a mistake when recording results from memory. Never put unidentified observations on scraps of paper. Instead they should be recorded in a notebook, like the one in Figure 10. Write your data neatly so you can easily read it later. At each point in the experiment, record your observations and label them. That way, you will not have to determine what the figures mean when you look at your notes later. Set up any tables that you will need to use ahead of time, so you can record any observations right away. Remember to avoid bias when collecting data by not including personal thoughts when you record observations. Record only what you observe. 

Once your characters are in place, your objective will be to write at least a couple of short paragraphs describing a silent interaction between them. Remember that this is only an exercise there is nothing to be lost, and much to be gained, by letting your characters do the work. 

Knowing exactly what your employees need to learn can help when writing your training objectives. A simple, informal pre-assessment can help with the planning process. The pre-assessment can be as simple as asking attendees if they have a specific topic they would like to discuss. Put together a small questionnaire for each of the attendees to fill out. Keep track of the issues and questions that come up often. Or, review specific company safety areas to see where fleet improvement is needed. 

You should now be able to write the objectives for a short training course based on your previous activities in this learning outcome. 

Writing the objective will help you clarify your specific meaning and intent of what you want to accomphsh. K questions do arise, the written objective is a document that you and others can review. The existence of written objectives will show that you are serious about meeting objectives. The following are some example objectives that can be used [2]. 

Documenting objectives in writing clarifies the meaning and intent of what is to be accomplished. When you write each objective for the given position, ensure that you state your expectations in specific, measurable terms. Include what you want the position to achieve and to what degree you want the objectives to be accomplished in a specific time frame. Goals and objectives are not set in stone, as the conditions under which they were developed may change over time and must be reviewed. 

Once you have defined your objectives and have put them in writing, if questions arise, then you will have a written document that outlines specific expectations. The written document shows that you are serious about the meeting of goals and objectives. 

Every time a verb is mentioned, draw an action and add to your list of questions Who and what else participates in that What is its effect on their state The answers to these questions lead you to draw object types and to write postconditions these in turn lead to associations and attributes with which to illustrate the effects. 

In fact, it is important that a client not depend on how the state is implemented. Back in the olden days of programming when a team would write a software system from scratch, every part of the system was accessible to every other part. You just had to stick your head above the partition to shout across at whoever was designing the bit whose state you wanted to change. But in recent times, software has joined the real business world of components that are brought together from many sources, and you shouldn t interfere with another object s internal works any more than you should write directly on the hotel s reservation book (or the manager s tie). It would be wrong and inflexible to make assumptions about how they work. 

Well-written postconditions can be used as the basis for verification and testing. For this purpose, we should write the postconditions in a more precise style as test (Boolean) functions. You can use the Boolean expression part of your favorite programming language we will use a general syntax from UML called Object Constraint Language (OCL). It translates readily to most programming languages but is more convenient for specification. 

Details are important for your essay because they help the reader connect with your writing. They often involve the senses. You might describe a scene or an object with such clarity that your reader can almost see it. Or, you might use dialogue or sounds to help your reader hear your essay. Adding detail is important in almost any kind of writing, but it is crucial in the personal essay. The addition of details can turn a weak essay into a winner. 

While using more immediate and diverse points of view for works of fiction might be beneficial and produce specific results, a work of nonfiction is based upon facts and the accumulation of hard evidence. Allow the evidence you have gathered to persuade your reader so that you, as the author, won t have to. Maintain a formal tone at all times, as well as an objective, or unbiased point of view, and rely on the strength of your rmique writing style to convince your reader. 

How can the proper use of tense and voice help you achieve objectivity in your writing ... 

Consider the importance of your research area, more generally, and your own research, more specifically. What background information will your audience need to grasp the importance of this project Identify a few key references that you could include in your Introduction. List the key objectives of your research that are addressed in the poster. Then write the Introduction to your poster. 

Project Summary. In one page or less, write a summary, suitable for publication, of proposed activities. It should not be an abstract of the proposal but rather a self-contained description of the proposed work. The summary should be written in the third person and include descriptions of (i) the goals and objectives of the project, (2) the importance of the project, (3) the proposed methods, and (4) the broader impacts of the work, it should be written for a scientifically literate reader, but not necessarily an individual in your field or discipline. 

B Writing on Your Own Create a List of Project Goals and Objectives... 

After a Research Proposal topic is selected (refer back to the Writing on Your Own task in chapter 11), it is time to specify project goals and objectives. Consider guestions such as these to begin the brainstorming process ... 

Draft a list of expected outcomes for your proposed research. Strive to link your outcomes to the list of project goals and objectives that you created in the first section of the proposal (see Writing on Your Own task 12B). Make sure that you list outcomes in a parallel fashion. Include a heading and a brief introduction. 

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