English 421Y: Technical Writing Online

This week’s reading, Chapter 8 – Organizing and Drafting, doesn’t really present any information that should be new to a college student, but I believe it serves as a good reminder of how our documents, technical or not, should be structured. I feel that the structure of a document can make or break its effectiveness. If you’ve ever come across a document that was all over the place, you could probably agree.

The reading from Chapter 8: Organizing and Drafting provided helpful instructions to crafting an organized technical document. Specifically the details of this chapter include methods on how to organize an introduction, body, and conclusion with a genre for a technical document. At the start of the chapter, the author provided a good example of an excellence form of a document skeleton. The memo from NASA about the erosion around the space shuttle O-rings, demonstrated the reasoning of why it’s essential to properly organize a technical document.

My biggest problem with writing any paper has always been the introduction. I know the basics of the introduction, they have been drilled into my head since high school, but that never made it any easier to write. I think my problem with the introduction has always been the attention getter. I always found the attention getter to be the hardest part of writing any paper. Thankfully, for me, the attention getter is not a part of technical writing. The six moves that were presented in this chapter should be a good tool to help with the writing of an introduction.

In searching for a relevant job to my career on www.monster.com I found it harder than I thought. Some of the things that I required in my job search were location, job type, and specific job position. I was looking for a job in California and looking for an internship position for Mechanical Engineering. With a couple internships under my belt, I was looking for a company that would give me a better opportunity in the future. After searching I found an internship available in Mechanical Engineering from Apple Inc. Apple Inc.

https://jobs.dynetics.com/job_view.php?job_pkid=956

The job that I have chosen to consider for this analysis is a mechanical engineering internship position for Dynetics. This internship would take place during the summer of 2009 at there headquarters location in Huntsville, Alabama.

The job that I will apply for is entitled Mechanical Engineer, and I found it posted on Monster.com. The job is for a company called Ghafari, Inc.

http://jobview.monster.com/getjob.aspx?JobID=78463592&JobTitle=PHP+Web+D...

Welcome to the introduction to Reading Response 3. Hopefully the title caught your attention and you decided to read what I had to say. According to Chapter 8 – Organization and Drafting, there should be an introduction to your paper. I’ll be talking about what the chapter had to say about formatting your paper as well as experiences I have encountered in my day to day life. For now, sit back and enjoy the words that I am typing.

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So far, based on the previous chapters, this text seems to have a very systematic approach to writing technical documents. This is a good thing because it makes everything quite simple; “Follow these steps and you will not fail...” Something I really liked was the use of power point to create an outline. I think this works because physically separating ones thoughts by having several slides helps to organize thoughts in your head more clearly-just makes sense to me.