- Orientation Quiz--Part 2
Please complete Part Two of the Orientation Quiz
(2 pts.). Be sure to e-mail this exercise to Kurt Neumann. Part Two
must be submitted as an attachment to an e-mail message. Part Two
should be a file in Rich Text Format. Receiving full points for Part
Two of the quiz depends upon both completing the responses and
submitting Part Two in the required formats and as a file attachment to
an e-mail message. Part Two of the Orientation Quiz is due 09/05.
Shortly after I have received your completed quiz, I will
send to you an e-mail message confirming receipt of it. That
confirmation message will also contain a file attachment in Rich Text
Format. That will help us make sure that you can receive as well as
send file attachments. You will have an opportunity to resubmit the
quiz on Thursday, 06 Sep, if the file attachment (Part Two) does not
reach me in a readable format. If the problem has not been resolved by
06 Sep, then you will not receive credit for Part Two of the
Orientation Quiz.
- Reading in Technical Communication: pp. 15-29
and 74-97
- Writing/Online Exercise 1 (2 pts.)
Complete Exercise 3 on page 29 of Technical Communication.
Exercise 3 asks you to study and evaluate your college’s (in this case,
Harper’s) code of conduct on the Web. So, for this WebBoard exercise,
please examine and evaluate all conduct statements on Harper’s web
site. (Look for all policy statements regarding use of Harper's web
site, web resources, e-mail resources, and so on. ) How long is the
code? How comprehensive is it? Is it detailed or general or somewhere
in between? Where does the code appear and does it appear in more than
one place? Is there a single code or are there several different codes
pertaining to different computing activities, such as using the Web and
using e-mail? Is there information about how the code is applied or
enforced? Are consequences clearly stated? Do you find the code(s)
relevant and effective? Could it (or they) be improved? Post your
response to the discussion forum by 05 Sep.
- Writing/Online Exercise 2: Discussion Conference for
Project 1--Definitions of "Technical Writing" (2 pts.)
Considering your own experience with and ideas about technical writing,
and adding to those anything from what you've read so far in your
textbook, generate ideas for a one- or two-sentence definition of the
term "technical writing." You don't need to write that definition at
this point. Instead, write about the kinds of contexts and purposes
(social, political, economic, and the like), audiences (local, global,
technical, non-technical, and such), rhetorical conventions, and so on
that define a document as an instance of "technical writing" and that
define the goals of such writing. If you "know it when you see it,"
then what clues are apparent in the documents themselves? What criteria
must a piece of writing meet in order to fit your definition? What
forms does technical writing take and to what purposes does it respond?
What would make something not be considered technical writing?
And should a definition of technical writing be expansive enough to
help determine a writer's actions in a context broader than that
defined by the immediate task.
Post your ideas/definitions/suggestions to the discussion
conference by 05 Sep.
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