Annotated bibliography

Have you ever created an annotated bibliography before now? If so, when? In our instance, how do you think the exercise of completing the annotated bibliography will help you with the ultimate construction of your report?

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Primary research

What kind of graphics will you use to convey or accompany your "primary research" in your final report? Will these graphics serve the purpose of making technical details comprehensible to a non-expert audience? What problems with this conveyance of information do you foresee?

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Instructions

We examined an online "How To" for helping to save a choking dog. We pointed out many features of these instructions that we saw as problematic. What were some of the flaws? What were some of the strengths of that set of instructions?

Different audiences

In a business setting, concerning workplace documents, might a technical writer fall victim to the use of logical fallacies? If so, how? Your book might help you think of an example. In regard to the images such business documents employ, might these also be compromised is terms of ethics? How can a business graphic appeal to the reader's sense of the company's credibility or to the reader's emotion or logic?

Website appeals

Of the websites you/we perused in class today, which do you think relies most heavily on an emotional appeal to its audience (pathos)? Explain and give evidence. Can you think of any sites that you visit regularly that are free of emotional appeals?

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Document in Field

In your recent "Document in Field" assignment, what was the most difficult challenge to you in "translating" technical information from your field for the comprehension of a non-expert? In what instances in your professional future might you have to perform such a "translation"?

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Your resumes . . .

After completing the resume assignment, what would you say were the most significant items you learned in regard to the content of the resume as well as the design of it? In what ways do you think your resume is stronger now as compared to your original version? What do you think still needs to be improved?