ENG 204-001 - reading response

Reading Response #7

jtirrell — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:47:00 +0000

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

jtirrell — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:46:41 +0000

Respond to the two prompts below in a comment.

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

jtirrell — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:26:46 +0000

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

jtirrell — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:08:19 +0000

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

jtirrell — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:02:07 +0000

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?
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Reading Response #2

jtirrell — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:06:18 +0000

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

jtirrell — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:39:37 +0000

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