LA1
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Get Help Now!In this discussion topic, we will discuss what technical writing is. Please answer the following questions. Feel free to interact with your classmates on their answers as well.
- From your own experience, please provide a definition of technical writing. You may use the information in Unit 1 of your textbook to help you in constructing your definition if you would like to.
- Read over pages 129-131 of the article by Kitty Locker, “Will Professional Communication Be the Death of Business Communication?” The article is in the eReserves section of your class. To access the article, please take the following steps:
- click Content
- select Class Resources
- select eReserves
- select the icon for eReserves in the middle of your page.
- in the list of items that appears, locate this article and download it.
How does Locker distinguish technical writing from business writing? Write a couple of sentences or so in your response to this question.
- Read over pages 325-3236 of the article by Mark Gellis, “Autobiographical Writing in the Technical Writing Course.” The article is also in the eReserves section of your class.
How does Gellis distinguish an essay from a report or a proposal? Write a couple of sentences or so in your response to this question.
- In your life, have you written any documents that might be labeled technical writing? If so, what did you write?
- In your life, have you had to read or work through a piece of technical writing that you found problematic? If so, what was the document, and why was it problematic to work with?
LA 2
One of our writing assignment (WA #2) involves writing an instruction manual. This discussion topic is designed to help you prepare for that assignment.
Please peruse the following web pages.
- David McMurrey — Instructions: Tell Them How to Do It!
https://www.prismnet.com/~hcexres/textbook/instrux.html
- Wikibooks: Professional and Technical Writing/Instructions
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Professional_and_Technical_Writing/Instructions
- Jerz’s Weblog — Instructions: How to Write Guides for Busy, Grouchy People
- Imagine you are helping write an instruction manual for students on how to access their classes in LEO. How might you revise the following sentences if they were proposed for an instruction manual?
The user should log into the LEO system
The class will be on the right-hand side. You have to click on the class to access it.
The class will appear in your interface. You will need to select whatever menu item you want to access in order to access it.
- Please comment on any piece of advice given in these websites. Write a sentence or two describing the advice and what the chapter noted about it. Try to comment on a section of the chapter that one of your classmates has not commented on yet.
