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WRTG 393 students,
Welcome to the class! Please introduce yourself to the rest of the class. You might state your major (if you have one), why you are taking WRTG 393, and any other interesting details you would like to share.
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Hello everyone,
My name is Yuji Shimojo and I'm 28. I am from Okinawa, Japan and just moved to Tokyo three months ago. I used to study Information Engineering at University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, but I dropped out of the college 6 years ago. While in the college, I had lived in San Jose, California for 6 months for an internship. I'm currently majoring in Computer Science with a minor in Business Administration.
Yuji
WRTG 393 students,
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.
1. 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.
2. 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:
3. 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.
4. In your life, have you written any documents that might be labeled technical writing? If so, what did you write?
5. 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?
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WRTG 393 students,
This task is designed to help prepare you for the first writing assignment, the technical description
At the top of the Content area for Week 1, you will see two items:
Please peruse those two webites. The hybrid car website has a Flash as well as an html version you can explore.
Then examine the following two reading texts. The first one is available through eReserves
“Writing Descriptions” by Mike Markel
You can access the document by taking the following steps:
'Technical Description: What Does it Look Like? By David McMurrey
Please respond to this discussion topic by answering the following question:
'How do the two technical descriptions—the one on hybrid cars and the one on laser printers—apply the strategies given by either Markel or McMurrey?
Please select at least one of the technical descriptions and at least one of the two authors, Markel or McMurrey, and write one paragraph analyzing how the technical descriptions do or do not apply the strategies the author(s) mentions. You can write 100-150 words.
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