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Reading Response #7

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Post an individual comment in which you analyze the subject, purpose, audience, and context of your group's presentation (which will be delivered on 4/19) according to the information in the "Defining the Rhetorical Situation" section on pages 412-15 of Technical Communication Today.

Reading Response #6

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Respond to the two prompts below in a comment.

  1. TCT provides a sample proposal structure on page 592. As the book points out, this is not a formula, but a workable model. It's likely that we will not follow this structure exactly in our group proposals for Ms. Manning; we may not include all of the listed sections, and we may add some different elements. Please discuss (in approximately a paragraph) a structure for your group's Service Learning Project proposal that you think might be effective and explain why.



Reading Response #5

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After reading TCT Chapter 10: Designing Documents and Interfaces, TCT Chapter 11: Creating and Using Graphics, and Instructor Blog: Design, respond to these works in a comment of approximately 300 words. For example, you might identify particularly helpful or confusing aspects, or mention passages that seem particularly relevant in the context of our project.

Reading Response #4

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After reading the Instructions Project page, TCT Chapter 20: Instructions and Documentation, and Instructor Blog: Instructions, respond to this material in a comment of approximately 300 words. Think about how the material applies to your own experiences with instructions. You might discuss shaping instruction sets to target specific audiences in the performance of a particular task.

Reading Response #3

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After reading TCT Chapter 4: Working in Teams and "Feuds in Student Groups" respond to the following two prompts in a paragraph each:

  • Pages 69-70 and 83 of TCT Chapter 4 identify positive group member roles. Describe a situation when you took on one of these roles as a member of a team (inside or outside of school). How will this experience help you make a positive contribution during our current group project?

Reading Response #2

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After reading TCT Chapter 3: Readers and Contexts of Use and TCT Chapter 8: Organizing and Drafting, post a comment that contains the following:

  • One paragraph that states what you believe is the most important idea or concept in TCT Chapter 3: Readers and Contexts of Use and explains why.
  • One paragraph that states what you believe is the most important idea or concept in TCT Chapter 8: Organizing and Drafting and explains why.
  • One paragraph discussing how these readings might help us create our Crisis Analyses.

Reading Response #1

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Select one of our four readings about professional ethics:

  • TCT Chapter 5: Ethics in the Technical Workplace
  • Luntz Words That Work excerpt
  • Parsons Ethics in Public Relations: A Guide to Best Practice excerpt
  • Ruff and Aziz Managing Communications in a Crisis excerpt
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